OSM's USBRS WikiProject (see
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_U.S._Bicycle_Route_System)
seeks volunteers to help map new proposed United States Bicycle
Routes. Please see the Proposed Routes section of that wiki, a
reference and status report for the project. Right now,
USBR 10 in Washington state
USBR 11 in Virginia
USBR 30 in Wisconsin
USBRs 35, 36 and 50 in Indiana
USBR 66 in California, New Mexico and Oklahoma
USBR 76 in Wyoming and
USBR 90 in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana
are emerging proposed routes. Very helpful would be additional
experienced OSM volunteers, comfortable editing OSM relations, to
create and/or improve the proposed bicycle routes in these areas,
largely by adding route members to a new relation from a soft-copy
map or text description of the proposed route.
If you wish to help build our national bicycle network in OSM, please
contact Kerry Irons of the Adventure Cycling Association, a long-time
contributor to these talk-us pages. Kerry will match you with a
route, and email-introduce you to a statewide USBR coordinator --
your primary contact -- who provides route data for you to enter into
OSM. Meanwhile, the wiki page offers any necessary OSM technical
guidance, as well as acts as a progress reporting mechanism.
Volunteer stevea in California (stevea...@softworkers.com) is acting
OSM coach and wiki maintainer on the project, please cc: him on your
USBR coordinator emails.
It is important to communicate your intentions, progress and
completions 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 the communication flowing where it needs to. (Get
route data from a state USBR coordinator, update your progress in the
wiki or send email to stevea to do so). USBRS is nearly 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 a few emails. After you add a proposed route
to OSM, one reward is to see the dashed red lines of a proposed 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 newly proposed route in our
plastic, widely available map. This encourages consensus of the
proposed route to emerge in a geographically friendly way,
facilitating harmonious progress towards AASHTO approval. Then, once
a route is approved by AASHTO, its "state=proposed" tag is simply
deleted in OSM.
To begin your contributions to this OSM WikiProject, email Kerry on
irons54vortex at gmail (dot) com. Put "USBR mapping in OSM" in the
Subject line and tell him where you like to map. Thank you!
(Kerry and I worked on this volunteer solicitation together -- it
very much comes from not just him but from both of us.)
SteveA
California
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