Since there is no signage for these routes, this is an import and should be following the import guidelines.
- Serge On May 31, 2014 3:19 PM, "stevea" <stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote: > OSM's USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers to help map new APPROVED > United States Bicycle Routes. Please see > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_U.S._Bicycle_Route_System > , a reference and status report for the project. Effective immediately, > > USBR 1 in Massachusetts > USBR 10 in Washington state > USBR 36 and 37 in Illinois > USBR 50 in the District of Columbia and > USBR 50 in Ohio > > were declared by AASHTO as approved national routes. These are > essentially equivalent to freshly opened Interstate highways, except these > are for bicycles. Very helpful would be additional experienced OSM > volunteers, comfortable editing OSM relations, to improve/complete USBRs 1, > 10, 37 and 50 (in Ohio) by adding additional route members to a relation > from a soft-copy map 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 into OSM. The wiki offers > technical/tagging guidance, as well as acts as a progress reporting > mechanism. > > 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 pay attention to the > many moving parts by keeping communication flowing where it needs to. (Get > route data via email, wiki update your progress). USBRS is ~10,000 > kilometers and has momentum to grow to 20,000 in the medium-term future. > 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. 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 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 where you'd like to map. Thank you! > > SteveA > California > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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