[Talk-us] Removing US Bicycle Route tags

[Paul Johnson]

This creates major issues for many routes in the US, especially bike
routes, US Historic 66, US Historic 30, and US Historic 666, which due to
regional significance, unique and interesting signage, or both, frequently
are missing trailblazers, confirmation signage or way finding signage in
part or in full on account of theft.  ODOT just replaced US Historic 66
1926-1932 trailblazers and confirmation signs, I expect all of them to be
stolen by July.
On Jun 5, 2013 12:21 PM, "Frederik Ramm" <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 05.06.2013 14:29, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>
>> I am mostly not mapping in the US,
>>
>
> me neither...
>
>  but I'd like to raise awareness that
>> in Europe proposed bicycle routes are often mapped, and I don't see a
>> problem as long as they are mapped as "proposed" and not as "in place".
>>
>
> AFAIK, opencyclemap.org displays them with dashed or dotted lines somehow.
>
> An argument *against* having proposed routes is the verifiability - we
> usually try to have data where someone on the ground could easily check the
> correctness by looking at signs. Since proposed routes are unlikely to be
> signposted, having them in OSM is questionable.
>
> On the other hand, I take exception at the original poster's apparent
> insistence on "routes approved by AASHTO". Whether or not a certain route
> has been approved by a certain third organisation is not usually something
> that OSM would care about. The usual OSM approach would be that if a route
> is signposted, then it can be mapped - if not, then not.
>
> An AASHTO approved route that is not signposted would not normally be
> mapped; and a signposted route that is not approved by AASHTO has every
> right to be mapped.
>
> Just my $.02 though.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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