I know that in the past there has been some interest in RAGBRAI among OpenStreetMappers (if you're not familiar with RAGBRAI it's best described as a week-long moving party where to have to ride your bicycle from party location to party location). The detailed route was announced last week, so I thought that it would be interesting to study the route in more detail by building up a route relation in OSM:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/2821829 On one day there's an optional route (called the Century Loop or the Karras Loop) that brings the day's ride to 100 miles if you take it instead of the normal route: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/2821877 The route between towns is pretty well fixed, but the route through larger towns might be adjusted later. I'm hoping that I can attract some armchair mappers to help fix up the TIGER deserts that the route goes through. Bing has pretty good aerial coverage of the entire route so it should be fairly easy to align the streets and clean up any obvious errors. I'll be doing what I can between now and the end of July, but there's a lot of work to be done. Also, what's the best way to share this with non-OSM people? The route is starting to be rendered on OpenCycleMap, except that it doesn't show up at the scale I would need to show the whole route (and might get confused with other routes in the region). The following URL doesn't work for me for some reason: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=2821829 I tried both Firefox and Chrome and the map area just stays blank... -- Jeff Ollie _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
