[Talk-us] New United States Bicycle Routes!

Greg Morgan dr.kludge.gm at gmail.com
Fri Oct 26 13:18:07 UTC 2018


Kentucky USBR 23  is done.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/8843677#map=10/37.4960/-85.4712

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 12:30 PM OSM Volunteer stevea <
steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:

> AASHTO has completed it's "Autumn 2018 round" of national route numbering
> approvals (almost) and there are new USBRs for OSM to map.
>
> One is already completed (thank you, user:micahcochran!):  USBR 15 was
> extended from Georgia into Florida to connect to Florida's existing USBR 90.
>
> In Kentucky, route data for USBR 21 (Georgia also has 21) and USBR 23
> (connecting to Tennessee's 23) are also available.  While our WikiProject
> (see https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/WikiProject_U.S._Bicycle_Route_System )
> has route data for both of these — PDF maps and turn-by-turn spreadsheets —
> the route is not quite yet approved.  I have been told by a knowledgable
> source that "the AASHTO bureaucrat in charge of preparing the vote didn't
> put the (Kentucky) applications in front of the committee.  As a result,
> the applications were sent to the committee for an email vote, which is not
> yet concluded."  That's OK.
>
> So, as is our usual (established for at least the last five years)
> process, we can take the sometimes substantial time and effort it takes to
> enter these while we wait for this "email vote approval" to complete, while
> the route is tagged state=proposed in the meantime.  Kentucky's 21 and 23
> are each "seeded" in one southern county, properly tagged, they simply need
> completion.  If AASHTO's email vote approves these, we remove the
> state=proposed tag, whether the route is fully entered into OSM or not.
> Let's enter it sooner rather than later!  Details on how to do so and links
> to route data in the cloud are found at the WikiProject link above.  Step
> right up, please!
>
> Thank you for making OSM (and its companion renderer OpenCycleMap, as well
> as other great bicycle routing tools) one of the most comprehensive bicycle
> routing platforms in the world.  Like "E pluribus, unum" in the USA, "Ex
> data, multum" in OSM:  "From data, much."  (Yes, I did just make that up!)
>
> SteveA
> California
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