{"id":166,"date":"2008-09-20T17:11:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T21:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2018-01-18T15:21:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T20:21:04","slug":"albuquerque-aaroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/albuquerque-aaroads\/","title":{"rendered":"Albuquerque @ AARoads"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my recent mapping projects involved updating a wall map for Albuquerque and Sandoval County, New Mexico. My only experience with the area was a brief touchdown on a flight to Portland, Oregon in 2006, so updating the map pretty much involved getting familiar with the area.<\/p>\n

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There is not too much on the internet covering Albuquerque’s highway network. One site that does exist however, is Steve Riner’s New Mexico Highways<\/a> page, which covers every Interstate, U.S., and state highway within the state. I used his site often when updating the main arterial routes in Albuquerque, as many appeared to be state highways or represented former routes. But as I went along, I noticed that most of the area highways were truncated or decommissioned, despite being shown on many paper and digital mapping sources. Instead the main area of growth in Albuquerque’s roads involves the building of new arterials and boulevards, especially the two-county Paseo del Volcan and Northwest Loop Road.<\/p>\n

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After several weeks of research and in conjunction with Andy’s summer trip through the area, we now have a Albuquerque<\/a> focus page and highway guides covering Interstate 25<\/a>, Interstate 40<\/a>, and a part of former U.S. 66<\/a> (Central Avenue) in the area. Using Riner’s website, I created an Albuquerque\/Rio Rancho map to show the current state highway network and have referenced many of the current and former routes on the new guide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my recent mapping projects involved updating a wall map for Albuquerque and Sandoval County, New Mexico. My only experience with the area was a brief touchdown on a flight to Portland, Oregon in 2006, so updating the map pretty much involved getting familiar with the area. There is not too much on the internet covering Albuquerque’s highway network. One site that does exist however, is Steve Riner’s New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,265],"tags":[571,572],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps","category-new-mexico","tag-albuquerque","tag-newmexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}