As it is now spring (or fall), it’s that national biennial bicycle routes time
of year!
Yes, AASHTO has ballots pending from state Departments of Transportation (DOTs)
for new routes in the United States Bicycle Routing System (USBRS), like
“proto-Interstates for bikes” (network=ncn in the USA). OSM’s WIkiProject
USBRS is version 1.6. Wiki at
https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/WikiProject_U.S._Bicycle_Route_System
<https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/WikiProject_U.S._Bicycle_Route_System>
Known USBRS routes on the Spring 2016 AASHTO ballot are:
USBR 7 in Connecticut (new state, existing route, connects to Massachusetts)
USBR 10 in Idaho (realignment of existing route)
USBR 176 in Virginia (new route, spur off of 76)
USBR 621 in Georgia (new route, additional spur off of 21)
Note that while Georgia documentation references 721, it is believed this
USBR's final number will be 621.
It can take hours, days, weeks to “gather” OSM editing resources (thank you!)
to enter hundreds of kilometers of route data ready for approval, hence this
post. Should you wish to add or improve a USBR to OSM, please read our wiki,
finding a cloud pointer for new “very high bar standard” state ballots.
Include on new route relations the tag state=proposed, removed after AASHTO
approval. Approval might occur soon after Memorial Day (we should find out for
each route here, perhaps additional “surprise” routes). Or, approval may be
announced later in June, it is not known exactly when AASHTO publicizes results.
July 2015 OSM-US was granted explicit permission to add USBR ballots as they
are made available to AASHTO by state DOTs. (Again, we thank AASHTO for this
permission; our letter is on cloud). Procedures to enter these data, then
delete state=proposed as routes become approved, are well-established over
years of steady growth in the USBRS and careful coordination in this
WikiProject.
Also, this WikiProject appreciates completion of routes from AASHTO’s Fall 2015
ballot: USBR 7 in New Hampshire and USBRs 321 and 521 in Georgia. These are
yellow (partially complete) in our wiki, most others are green (done). Cloud
contents of ballots for as-yet-unentered-into-OSM routes begin to now “roll.”
That is, as DOT-submitted routes become fully entered into OSM and approved by
AASHTO, they fall out of (are deleted from) the cloud. New routes which are
either pending or approved but as-yet-unentered-into-OSM, remain in the cloud.
We are “light chartreuse” (largely green, tinged yellowish by a last miles of
incomplete route).
Thank you in advance for any additional energy this project might experience of
the “just read our wiki and GO” style of participation we enjoy. Perhaps you
are inspired to download a ballot, enter route data and watch yet another
national bike route blossom in OSM! Well, OK: OSM and OCM, OSM's “Cycle Map”
layer. Lonvia is an interesting layer, too: routes approved and often signed,
so simple a difference. Like having two different pairs of binoculars.
Everybody wants to get this right, right?!
Checking my watch, it looks like our wiki remains frozen. Hm, true, though our
map seems live. See you tomorrow? on wiki. Much to digest.
Humbly and sincerely,
Steve All
WikiProject USBRS coordinator
California
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