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Started by vdeane, June 15, 2013, 12:20:17 AM

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vdeane

This week, I added photos as follows:
-Maryland: US 40, I-695, and I-95
-Delaware: I-95
-Pennsylvania: US 202 and I-76
-New Jersey: US 202, US 206, and I-287
-New York: I-81, NY 812, NY 12, I-390, Hylan Drive, I-590, NY 332, and I-490

https://nysroads.com/
Please note: All comments here represent my own personal opinion and do not reflect the official position of NYSDOT or its affiliates.


vdeane

This week, I updated the I-81, NY 5, and NY 695 exit lists and corrected the MPO page.  I also added photos as follows:
-Vermont: VT 279 and I-91
-New Hampshire: US 302, US 3, US 2, I-93, NH 25, NH 11, and NH 16
-Maine: US 2, ME 108, ME 5, ME 26, US 302, ME 100, ME 77, US 1, ME 9, Scarborough Connector, and I-295

https://nysroads.com/
Please note: All comments here represent my own personal opinion and do not reflect the official position of NYSDOT or its affiliates.

vdeane

This week, I reversed direction for the Scarborough Connector and Maine Turnpike Approach Road photos to match the mileposts and updated the I-95 exit list.  I also added photos as follows:
-Maine: Maine Turnpike Approach Road, I-95/Maine Turnpike, I-195, US 1, and US 1 Bypass
-New Hampshire: US 1 Bypass, NH 16, and US 1
-Massachusetts: MA 110, I-495, and I-290
-New York: US 20, I-90/Thruway, NY 390, and I-490

https://nysroads.com/
Please note: All comments here represent my own personal opinion and do not reflect the official position of NYSDOT or its affiliates.

vdeane

This week, I reversed the direction for the Indiana I-265 photo page to reflect the upcoming exit number changes, updated the US 4 and US 7 exit lists to reflect recent sign replacements, updated the I-81 exit list to relect the new/relocated mile markers from Cicero north, and updated the I-86/NY 17 exit list and information page to reflect the extension to NY 26.  I also added photos as follows:
-New York: I-90/Albany
-Massachusetts: I-290, I-495, and I-95
-New Hampshire: NH 16/Spaulding Turnpike, NH 113, NH 26, and US 3
-Maine: I-95/Maine Turnpike, US 202, ME 4, ME 115, and ME 26
-Vermont: I-91, US 7, and VT 279

https://nysroads.com/
Please note: All comments here represent my own personal opinion and do not reflect the official position of NYSDOT or its affiliates.

vdeane

I'm looking for feedback on my site's exit lists.  I'm leaning more and more towards re-computing the milemarkers for the exit lists on my site, especially if I do the "soft refresh" that I've been thinking of.  The thing is, signed milemarkers don't seem to match NYSDOT data records for what the mileage should be (I-81 and NY 17 are particularly noteworthy offenders).  Just computing from the Traffic Data Report would be the easy option, but I'm wondering if I should just use street view and measure from the nearest mile marker for everything with signed mileposts.

Interestingly, while my measured NY mileage fairly consistently lags by .5 miles on the longest routes, for I-89 and I-91 in VT, it's instead .2 miles over, which makes me wonder if there's some state methodology resulting in these differences.
Please note: All comments here represent my own personal opinion and do not reflect the official position of NYSDOT or its affiliates.

vdeane

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I've started with the "soft refresh" idea.  I might have even managed to get the exit lists to work right on mobile, though I've thought that before and been wrong.  Here's what the new Thruway exit list looks like: https://nysroads.com/new/list-nyst.php

The exit lists use street view of mile markers, because I computed the Thruway's mileage from DOT data and got a figure over 500 miles long.
Please note: All comments here represent my own personal opinion and do not reflect the official position of NYSDOT or its affiliates.

webny99

Quote from: vdeane on January 04, 2025, 04:30:01 PMI'm looking for feedback on my site's exit lists.

I can't comment on the accuracy of the milepoints, since I've never cross-checked any of them with any level of precision, but I do think your exit lists are great and I use them quite a bit, especially for non-interstate freeways, many of which don't even have mile markers posted at all or if they do, they're not "actual" mile markers. I'd even go so far as to say your exit lists are the only publicly available source for "actual" mile marker references on many non-interstate freeways, so they're an invaluable resource and I appreciate you having them and keeping them updated to the extent you do.

vdeane

Quote from: webny99 on January 09, 2025, 09:56:22 PM
Quote from: vdeane on January 04, 2025, 04:30:01 PMI'm looking for feedback on my site's exit lists.

I can't comment on the accuracy of the milepoints, since I've never cross-checked any of them with any level of precision, but I do think your exit lists are great and I use them quite a bit, especially for non-interstate freeways, many of which don't even have mile markers posted at all or if they do, they're not "actual" mile markers. I'd even go so far as to say your exit lists are the only publicly available source for "actual" mile marker references on many non-interstate freeways, so they're an invaluable resource and I appreciate you having them and keeping them updated to the extent you do.
They're actually modeled after Upstate NY Roads (the site that brought me into the roadgeek community).

The Traffic Data Report has mileage figures, but those are actually closer to my Google Maps measurements than to the posted mile markers in some cases, which is interesting.  And, of course, those figures reset at county lines.  It's going to be interesting to figure out how to get the "actual" figures for longer distance roads like NY 104 and NY 5, since measurement errors on Google Maps stack with increasing distance, and my computer doesn't like doing such long measurements any more either (and it doesn't help that Google Maps uses a lot more RAM than it used to).
Please note: All comments here represent my own personal opinion and do not reflect the official position of NYSDOT or its affiliates.

vdeane

This month, I updated the I-86/NY 17, I-87, I-90, I-95, I-278, I-287, NY 5S, NY 8, and Thruway exit lists and began to consolidate the photos of routes with overlaps.  As such, photos on overlaps will only appear on the primary route.  This will usually be the lowest route number of the highest classification of roadway, but not always (for instance, the NY 8/NY 12 overlap north of Utica is on NY 12's page since that's the continuous freeway, and the NY 5/8/12 Arterial is now on a combined I-790/NY 5/NY 8/NY 12 page; this will also be reflected on the exit lists for the revamped site).  That effort won't be a priority until I finish the revamped site (in fact, many of the exit list updates are back-ported changes from the revamped versions, which are why there are so many), but I will be handling pages as they become affected by added photos.

I also added photos from a MLK Day trip to re-clinch NY 12E and refresh the Utica/Rome photo coverage to the following photo pages: NY 49, NY 365, NY 840, NY 8, I-790/NY 5/NY 8/NY 12, NY 5, NY 12, NY 12E, and NY 5S.

https://nysroads.com
Please note: All comments here represent my own personal opinion and do not reflect the official position of NYSDOT or its affiliates.



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