[Talk-us] U.S. Bike Route 76

[Minh Nguyen]

Ngày 3/11/09 8:48 PM, Paul Johnson vie^'t:
> Spencer Riddile wrote:
>    
>> Chris,
>>
>> What would the advantage/disadvantage be of using a different network
>> name ("usbrs" vs. "ncn") for U.S. bike routes.  The author of open cycle
>> map would have to adjust their symbolization if we started using
>> "usbrs".  Is it good to try to keep some international standard even
>> though trail and route systems may be different in various ways.
>>      
>
> Plus there are areas in the US that are already using the ncn/rcn/lcn
> convention so cyclemap renders things properly.  This breaks down pretty
> nicely for cycleways that front US and Interstates as well as the 2
> designated NCNs in the US (as ncn), state owned routes as rcn and city
> and county maintained routes as LCN (such as the 40 Mile Loop and
> Portland/Salem/Eugene's bicycle boulevards and city greenways).
>    
Pennsylvania seems to be tagging trails as NCNs pretty extensively on 
what probably aren't existing or proposed U.S. Bike Routes. [1] I'm 
guessing that's to get the trails to appear more prominently at lower 
zoom levels.

[1] For example, BikePA Route S: 
http://www.opencyclemap.org/?zoom=11&lat=40.18381&lon=-80.23126&layers=B000

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