[Talk-us] WikiProject US Bicycle Route System call for volunteers

[OSM Volunteer stevea]

AASHTO has completed its Autumn 2016 round from state Departments of 
Transportation (DOTs) for new routes in the United States Bicycle Routing 
System (USBRS), like “Interstates for bikes” (network=ncn in the USA).  For 
details, please see OSM’s WIkiProject USBRS, 
https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/WikiProject_U.S._Bicycle_Route_System.

There remains only one USBR from this round to enter into OSM:

USBR 41 in Minnesota, about 300+ miles from St. Paul north to Duluth, then 
along Lake Superior to the Canadian border near Grand Portage

It can take hours, days, weeks to “gather” OSM editing resources (thank you!) 
to enter hundreds of miles of route data, hence this post request. Should you 
wish to add or improve this USBR to OSM, please read our wiki, finding a cloud 
pointer to the USBR 41 data.  There is already a "seed" relation at the north 
and south termini, so all you need to do is "build the middle!"  This is 
carefully following the map and turn-by-turn directions and including 
largely-existing bicycle infrastructure (mostly roads, you might need to add 
some cycleways) into the relation.

In 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 are 
well-established over years of steady growth in the USBRS and careful 
coordination in this WikiProject, which appreciates completion of routes from 
additional OSM volunteers.

Project Status is now “light chartreuse” (almost completely green, tinged 
yellowish by the last few hundred miles of incomplete USBR 41). Thank you in 
advance for any additional energy this project might experience of the “read 
our wiki and GO!” style of participation we enjoy. Perhaps you are inspired to 
enter route data and watch yet another national bike route blossom on the Cycle 
Map layer of OSM.  If so, please update your status in the wiki as/after you do 
so, and Thank You!

Humbly and sincerely,

Steve All
WikiProject USBRS coordinator
California
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Re: [Talk-us] WikiProject US Bicycle Route System call for volunteers

[OSM Volunteer stevea]

> As it is now spring (or fall), it’s that national biennial bicycle routes 
> time of year!

Whoops, semi-annual, not biennial:  AASHTO approves state DOT ballots for new 
USBRs every spring and autumn.

SteveA
California


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[Talk-us] WikiProject US Bicycle Route System call for volunteers

[OSM Volunteer stevea]

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 


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
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