[Talk-us] USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

[stevea]

OSM's USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers to help map new 
United States Bicycle Routes submitted to AASHTO.  Please see 
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_U.S._Bicycle_Route_System>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_U.S._Bicycle_Route_System 
, a reference and status report for the project.  Effective now,

USBR 7 in Vermont
USBR 21, 321 and 521 in Georgia
USBRs 35, 36 and 50 in Indiana
USBR 76 in Kansas and
USBR 90 in Arizona

are state applications for USBRs ("ballots") before AASHTO to soon 
become approved national routes, by the People of these several 
states, via their Departments of Transportation (DOTs).  These are 
roughly equivalent to new Interstate or US highways, but for 
bicycles.  Very helpful would be additional experienced OSM 
volunteers, comfortable editing OSM relations, to improve/complete 
these by creating/adding additional route members to a relation from 
a soft-copy map and/or text description of the route.

If you wish to help build our national bicycle network in OSM, please 
contact me to obtain route data to enter.  The wiki offers 
technical/tagging guidance, as well as acts as a progress reporting 
mechanism.  A new development in this project is OSM's explicit 
permission from AASHTO to enter into OSM routing data from ballots as 
these are submitted by state DOTs to AASHTO's web site.  Later 
iterations of this process intend downloading route data directly 
from AASHTO's web site, but for now, please email me for route data. 
(USBR 36 in Kansas and USBR 76 in Indiana have already been "adopted" 
by Joe Kallo and Ethan Nelson, respectively.  Thank you both!)

It is important to communicate your intentions and progress via email 
or preferably wiki.  The project has established process and enjoys 
new growth by asking widely for additional volunteers, so please 
communicate as requested.  (Get and enter route data, wiki update 
your progress).  USBRS is ~15,000 kilometers and has momentum to grow 
to 25,000 km in the medium-term future.  Please help out by adopting 
a route near you!

Though this work isn't difficult, each route might take a few hours 
of effort starting with an email.  (USBR 90 in Arizona is over 800 
km, requiring more effort).  After you complete a route in OSM, one 
reward is to see the red line of a new, official USBR blossom in 
Cycle Map layer.  Other rewards happen for on-the-ground participants 
(cities, counties, state DOTs, the public, stakeholders, bicycle 
coalition groups...), who see the route in our widely available map. 
This encourages more routes to emerge in a geographically friendly 
way, facilitating harmonious progress and further growth in the 
USBRS, our national bicycle network.

To begin your contributions to this OSM WikiProject, reply using 
steveaOSM at softworkers (dot) com.  Put "USBR mapping in OSM" in the 
Subject line and say in which of these states you'd like to map. 
Thank you!

SteveA
California
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