[Tagging] How can the US get its stuff together? (was Re: Response to A critique of OpenStreetMap)

M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Sun Oct 17 00:41:51 BST 2010


2010/10/17 Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
>> I wonder if it's worth the trouble and effort to maintain US-HISTORIC
>> routes, since their use is primarily recreational and are frequently
>> inconsistent in their continued existence, and frequently their historic
>> posted alignments.  For example, OK-66 goes through Kellyville, though
>> the old US-66 alignment now runs abandoned and without pavement through
>> the property I'm on...
>
> Since Historic US 66 is (I believe) posted in every state, yes, it
> should have relations. These relations shouldn't include abandoned
> roads that aren't marked as part of the historic route, however.


could be even more interesting to map those, as they are much harder
to spot, don't you think? Just map them in a way they're not
confusable with what is still ojn the ground / andor signposted.

Cheers,
Martin



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