[Talk-us] Fwd: Re: Long-distance scenic roads

[Richard Welty]

On 2/24/11 6:44 PM, Charlotte Wolter wrote:
>
> These two are probably the best known of such roads, but there are 
> others.
> --In the 1920s, the Lincoln Highway was established across the United 
> States to promote auto travel (it seems to have succeeded). Portions 
> were financed by oil companies. The route was refined several times 
> over the years, but it is still marked in many places. The route 
> follows everything from interstates to dirt roads (at a few places out 
> west). It even has a Web site.
the Lincoln highway was different (as another pointed out.) it was the 
original US 30. US 30 has
been rerouted in many places, but as you say the original Lincoln 
Highway has been marked
in many places (my grandmother Welty used to be a prominent figure in 
Nevada, Iowa's
celebration of Lincoln Highway Days each year. for those like her who 
saw the impact of the
new highway through town, it was of incredible importance; its existence 
changed everything.)

but it can be tagged using normal methods, and really just requires a 
relation (multiple,
one per state with a super, i think) to indicate its route and 
historical meaning.

> --There's also the beautiful George Washington Parkway, which leads 
> from Washington, D.C., to Mount Vernon. It also was constructed like 
> the Blue Ridge and is lined with park land. Its route changes from 
> interstate to parkway to residential road at the end.
and the Colonial Parkway from Williamsburg VA to Yorktown VA (i'm on 
vacation in Williamsburg
right now, and so that road has some of my attention.)
> --Of course there's Route 66.
> --What about historic rail routes? There's the Orient Express in 
> Europe, and, for example, the City of New Orleans (recently revived) 
> in the United States.
not sure i'd tag by the train routings, they change, but there are 
certainly historic trackage
lines which deserve recognition. however, this leads on a path where we 
might be better
with some sort of mashup overlay rather than embedding too much historic 
info in the
base OSM database.
>
> As for tags, shouldn't they be tagged for the actual way, no matter 
> what the route? Then, given that these are historically or scenically 
> important, is there some way to tag them with something like a 
> "historic or scenic route" tag?
i'd suggest a package of scenic and/or historic tags for route 
relations. that's
a mechanism we already have support for.

richard