[Talk-us] End of an Era, data collection to slow in Oklahoma, project announcement

[Paul Johnson]

I love the relation pages, but the state ones don't catch anything but the
primary networks, which is very problematic in this region: Oklahoma and
it's turnpikes (US:OK:Turnpike), Missouri and it's supplemental highways
(US:MO:Supplemental), and Texas with it's Toll, Loop, Spur, Farm to Market,
Recreational Roads, and exactly one each of Ranch Road (really!  The Ranch
to Market highways are part of the Farm to Market network) and NASA Road
network.  Heck, even Oregon and it's bannered auto trails (like the Oregon
Outback Scenic Loop).  Catching some of the more obscure national networks
would be useful, too, like US Historic (US:US:Historic, kind of A Thing in
areas I map given Historic US 30 on the south side of the Columbia River
Gorge National Scenic Area being the best way to view the scenery and often
the only way through in the winter when ODOT closes the Interstate; and
Historic US 66 in Oklahoma, which has the most drivable miles of that route
of any state), national autotrails (Lewis & Clark, Applegate, Oregon,
though I don't think anybody's made a serious attempt at mapping the
current routes of these).

NCN and RCN pages would be handy as well.


On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Martijn van Exel <martijn at openstreetmap.us>
wrote:

> Wow, Paul, that is a lot of distance you covered.
> I do hope you manage to stay involved.
> Let me know if there's anything you want improved to the relation
> pages (if you use them).
>
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org>
> wrote:
> > Alright, after nearly 110,000 miles, 4000 notes, 2000 trips, 2 years,
> and an
> > epic road trip from Portland, Oregon to Long Beach, California to Tulsa,
> > Oklahoma via Historic Route 66, I'm leaving my current position as a
> leading
> > field service engineer in Northeast Oklahoma to take a job as a support
> > engineer with a local internet hosting company.  What does this mean?  My
> > GPX uploads and creation of OSM notes is going to become more sporadic,
> and
> > someone in Oklahoma's going to have the opportunity to out-edit me
> (maybe, I
> > still have a massive backlog, plus ongoing projects inspired by my
> current,
> > coming-to-an-end job).  As a result, I'm also going to be pulling back on
> > watching out for and maintaining construction zones outside the Tulsa
> > City-County network and OklaDOT's Tulsa zone (I don't think I have any
> > mapped construction zones outside this area at this time).
> >
> > I'm not leaving the OpenStreetMap project, though out of a want to
> continue
> > mapping and an understanding on how OSM in Oklahoma is used actively, I'm
> > going to become more project oriented (especially once I'm done
> inspecting
> > the vicinity of the traces I collected over the last two years).  Knowing
> > the limitations and challenges of every other major mapping provider in
> the
> > region in practice has left me with a unique perspective on how a map
> should
> > work, and I plan on continuing my efforts to help support travelers and
> > mobile professionals in the region until I, somehow, manage to find OSM
> is
> > Complete™ (yeah, don't count on that ever happening).  I'm just not
> going to
> > be actively monitoring, on average, 240 highway miles per day like I have
> > been.
> >
> > I've yet to properly name my current project for OSM, which has recently
> > gotten underway and is going to take a LOT of time to complete assuming I
> > don't get help.  The basic jist of it is that I'm moving from county to
> > county, in order of 2010 population, to complete route relations for
> State
> > Highways, State Turnpikes, US Highways, and Interstate Highways in
> Oklahoma,
> > with a special emphasis on ensuring route relations, lane counts, turn
> > lanes, and placement=* tags are accurate relative to the most recent
> Mapbox
> > data (or personal recollection, whichever is more recent).
> >
> > My ultimate goal is to make OpenStreetMap, far and away, the most useful
> map
> > for navigation in Oklahoma, something I already believe we've no doubt
> > achieved with apps like Osmand capable of inferring address lookups
> through
> > Nominatim as a supplement to the physically mapped data,
> >
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>
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> Martijn van Exel
> President, US Chapter
> OpenStreetMap
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