OSM's USBRS WikiProject has just had its most successful "round" (of
AASHTO ballots, just approved) yet: eight United States Bicycle
Routes were just AASHTO approved. This happens twice a year, we just
had the Autumn 2015 vote.
This WikiProject owes recent and serious gratitude to the following
individuals:
* Andrew Guertin for entering a significant chunk of USBR 7 in
Vermont (from Canada to Burlington),
* Mike Nice for entering USBR 21 in Georgia and seeds/stubs for
proposed USBRs 321 and 521,
* Joe Kallo for entering USBR 36 in Indiana,
* Minh Nguyen for entering USBR 50A in Ohio, and for his co-founding
of this project and making the beautiful SVG shields for the route
signs,
* Ethan Nelson for entering USBR 76 in Kansas -- and for finding
errors from KDOT which made the full round trip from KDOT to AASHTO
to Ethan to OSM to AASHTO to approval to display in OSM, and
especially
* Greg Morgan for entering USBR 90 in Arizona (a HERCULEAN effort!)
and acting as much as "co-pilot" on this project as anybody has yet
done so far.
I am deeply appreciative to the wonderful, cooperative,
consensus-based, roll-up-our-sleeves-and-do-it approach that
everybody who contributed has offered this round. It is a testament
to the spirit of OSM that "we can do this," and indeed, except for a
bit of distance in Vermont, a couple of gaps in Indiana, and two
small ambiguities around Tucson, we are essentially done for this
round. We might be a bit "chartreuse" (mostly green but a bit of
yellow) in our wiki status for Approved routes, but I'll take that!
Congratulations!
In brief, semi-annually (in Spring and Autumn), state DOTs provide
their states' proposals to AASHTO as a "ballot" from the People of
that state (through the DOT) for a national bicycle route in that
state to become part of the USBRS network. In this OSM project, we
enter data of the thousands of kilometers of route while the ballot
works its way through AASHTO as a proposal (though it has been
technically approved by the People of the state, the AASHTO
ballot/approval process "officializes" the route into the national
USBRS network). Finally, when AASHTO approves each state DOT ballot
for a USBR, (as happened last week), if/as the route has been entered
into OSM (and this time, all were, nearly every mile), we simply
delete the "state=proposed" tag, and (if necessary) incorporate the
route into super-relations so they stitch together the USBRS across
the nation.
This is a wonderful collaboration, and I am delighted to report on
the positive progress we have enjoyed.
Thanks again to the great volunteers and dedicated spirit in this OSM project,
SteveA
USBRS WikiProject coordinator
California
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