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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