* Toby Murray <toby.mur...@gmail.com> [2012-07-08 14:20 -0500]: > Closer to home I have also seen a "Scenic Byway" sign. This seems to > be an official designation by the US DOT as discussed here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Scenic_Byway
I've done a bit of reading about these, mostly as they pertain to Maryland. It appears that most of those are also state-designated scenic byways, and a state will probably have other scenic byways that are not nationally recognized. > So how do we map these? In Maryland, the state has a brochure showing more or less where the byways are, and they're not entirely consistently signed[0]. I've put one into OpenStreetMap[1] and tagged it much as you did the Western Vistas Historic Byway, but I used a network of US:MD for lack of a better option. (US:MD:Scenic Byway might make sense, too.) I think the state-based scenic byways should have state-specific network tags. There are a few that are not state scenic byways, like Skyline Drive in Virginia. I'm not sure what would be a good network for those. I think the best way to handle National Scenic Byways and All American Roads is just to add national_scenic_byway=yes and all_american_road=yes tags (sorry) to the route relations as appropriate. That probably doesn't address your Historic Byway, but I haven't read anything about those. [0] I've been on three of Maryland's scenic byways since I started paying attention to them, and have only followed one for its entire length. That one (the Horses and Hounds Scenic Byway) only has signs right before the byway turns onto other roads and those signs do not indicate which way the byway turns. The Catoctin Mountin Scenic Byway (also a National Scenic Byway) more or less runs along the entire length of US 15 in Maryland and has signs dotted along the side of the road. The Star Spangled Banner Scenic Byway runs along most of the length of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, but I've only seen one sign on the B-W Parkway--on the northbound side, just before MD 175--and it doesn't have the name of the scenic byway on it. [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/2188238 _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us