I'm interested in working 66 current and future routes in Oklahoma and Tulsa/Fort Smith/Ponca City-adjacent regions of Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas; possibly slightly farther out than that depending on how well I know the land.
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 4:23 PM, stevea <stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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