Re: [Talk-us] Scenic/Historic byways

2012-07-09 Thread Kristian M Zoerhoff
On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 11:02:32PM -0400, Richard Welty wrote: there are a couple of Heritage Corridors in NY State, i'm not aware of any efforts to tag them as such. Wisconsin has an actual state network of Rural Roads that are numbered. I haven't checked to see if anyone created a network

Re: [Talk-us] Scenic/Historic byways

2012-07-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Kristian M Zoerhoff k...@lavabit.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 11:02:32PM -0400, Richard Welty wrote: there are a couple of Heritage Corridors in NY State, i'm not aware of any efforts to tag them as such. Wisconsin has an actual state network of

Re: [Talk-us] Scenic/Historic byways

2012-07-09 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Kristian M Zoerhoff k...@lavabit.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 11:02:32PM -0400, Richard Welty wrote: there are a couple of Heritage Corridors in NY State, i'm not aware of any efforts to tag them as such. Wisconsin has an actual state network of

Re: [Talk-us] Scenic/Historic byways

2012-07-09 Thread Phil! Gold
* 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

Re: [Talk-us] Scenic/Historic byways

2012-07-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: 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

[Talk-us] Scenic/Historic byways

2012-07-08 Thread Toby Murray
Just came across this while processing pictures from my bike across Kansas: http://i.imgur.com/bmiV2.jpg This is a sign for the Western Vistas historic byway. It even has a website: http://www.westernvistashistoricbyway.com/ Closer to home I have also seen a Scenic Byway sign. This seems to be

Re: [Talk-us] Scenic/Historic byways

2012-07-08 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 7/8/2012 3:20 PM, Toby Murray wrote: Just came across this while processing pictures from my bike across Kansas: http://i.imgur.com/bmiV2.jpg This is a sign for the Western Vistas historic byway. It even has a website: http://www.westernvistashistoricbyway.com/ Closer to home I have also

Re: [Talk-us] Scenic/Historic byways

2012-07-08 Thread Toby Murray
On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/8/2012 3:20 PM, Toby Murray wrote: Just came across this while processing pictures from my bike across Kansas: http://i.imgur.com/bmiV2.jpg This is a sign for the Western Vistas historic byway. It even has a

Re: [Talk-us] Scenic/Historic byways

2012-07-08 Thread Kevin Kenny
On 07/08/2012 03:20 PM, Toby Murray wrote: Just came across this while processing pictures from my bike across Kansas: http://i.imgur.com/bmiV2.jpg This is a sign for the Western Vistas historic byway. It even has a website: http://www.westernvistashistoricbyway.com/ Closer to home I have also

Re: [Talk-us] Scenic/Historic byways

2012-07-08 Thread Toby Murray
On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Kevin Kenny kken...@nycap.rr.com wrote: On 07/08/2012 03:20 PM, Toby Murray wrote: Just came across this while processing pictures from my bike across Kansas: http://i.imgur.com/bmiV2.jpg This is a sign for the Western Vistas historic byway. It even has a

Re: [Talk-us] Scenic/Historic byways

2012-07-08 Thread Richard Welty
On 7/8/12 10:03 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote: O I have another such thing local to me - Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor. (Some roads and trails are signed or otherwise identified as belonging to it.) It appears to be designated by National Park Service, rather than DOT. I just checked, though,

Re: [Talk-us] Scenic/Historic byways

2012-07-08 Thread Richard Welty
On 7/8/12 11:00 PM, Toby Murray wrote: Along the same lines, there are various memorial highways all over the place although I'm not sure they really need anything but a name tag in the relation i think you're exactly correct. a relation with the name in a tag is probably sufficient and fits