[Talk-us] USBR 45 in Minnesota, USBR 76 proposal in Kansas

[stevea]

Hello fellow mappers:

Via Adventure Cycling Association, I received a detailed set of 
corrections to be made in OSM to United States Bicycle Route (USBR) 
45 in Minnesota.  Originally from Liz Walton of the Bicycle & 
Pedestrian Section of the Minnesota Department of Transportation 
(MnDOT), she would like to know when these corrections will be 
amended in OSM so that she can "let People know about (OSM) as a map 
option."  This is exciting!

As the author of the most recent updates to OSM's data after AASHTO's 
publication of Minnesota's Spring 2015 USBR 45 ballot, I can and will 
make these corrections if I absolutely must.  However, I ask for 
additional OSM volunteers to help the cause of a complete and correct 
national bicycle network here in the USA.  If you wish to throw your 
shoulder into this effort, please contact me via OSM missive or email 
and I will forward to you Liz's corrections:  a Microsoft Word file 
displaying clear side-by-side graphics of Cycle Map layer together 
with MnDOT-produced GIS imagery showing the correct route.  Any good 
OSM editor worth his or her salt should readily be able to finish the 
required editing.  If you are local to Minnesota, hey, great!

Also, there is a state ballot before AASHTO for a western extension 
to USBR 76 by the People of Kansas.  This qualifies as a "high bar 
standard" to be entered into OSM as a state=proposed route at 
http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/WikiProject_U.S._Bicycle_Route_System#Proposed_USBRs_in_OSM 
.  However, seeing as the maps and turn-by-turn directions I can send 
you extend for hundreds of miles, this will take some dedicated time 
and effort by a serious OSM volunteer.  From experience, it might 
take days or even a week to complete.  If you have that to offer, 
please contact me and I will forward you the state ballot and you can 
enter the route.  It is expected to be approved by AASHTO in 
September, so if OSM gets it in by then with tag "state=proposed" (so 
it draws in Cycle Map layer with a dashed line), all we'll need to do 
when AASHTO issues its approval is to remove that tag and then Cycle 
Map will render the dashes as solid.  You don't have to be from 
Kansas, but I have a feeling it would help.

Thanks for reading, and if you do, thanks for replying!

SteveA
USBRS WikiProject coordinator
California