On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Jeffrey Ollie <j...@ocjtech.us> wrote: > 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.
Hmm... I might look at doing something similar for Biking Across Kansas. Not sure if these event routes really belong in OSM as a route relation though. They do not indicate a route that should be generally preferred for bicycles. It is just specific to a single event and only to event participants. So this seems like a case of tagging for the renderer. Toby _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
