U.S. highways you've clinched in your state

[froggie]

And elsewhere, too. If this is what's holding some people back form using the site, it's where the project's gonna have to go sooner or later.

However, as was also discussed earlier, it would be a hellacious undertaking (possibly not worth the effort), and may not even be technically possible given how the project is set up.

[oscar]

I'm waiting for the cmap project to come up with a clickable map before I start entering data there.

Me, too.  Actually writing out all the segments of every highway I've ever driven on would take way too much time and fry way too many of my few remaining brain cells.

Keep in mind that the "segments" you'd enter can be pretty long, and if you've clinched a U.S. highway in your state (or any other), the only "segment" you need to enter under the present setup would be just one short line, from one border to the other unless the route begins or ends in your state, or goes through another state along the way.  For example, if you've done all of U.S. 50 from coast-to-coast, you'd need to enter short lines for just 15 segments -- CA, NV, UT, CO, KS, MO, IL, IN, OH, VA, DC, and two for WV and MD (since the route enters western MD then reenters eastern WV, before returning to MD on the other side of DC):

CA US50 I-80BL(1A) CA/NV
NV US50 CA/NV NV/UT
UT US50 NV/UT UT/CO
CO US50 UT/CO CO/KS
KS US50 CO/KS KS/MO
MO US50 KS/MO MO/IL
IL US50 MO/IL IL/IN
IN US50 IL/IN IN/OH
OH US50 IN/OH OH/WV
WV US50 OH/WV WV/MD
MD US50_W WV/MD MD/WV
WV US50_E MD/WV WV/VA
VA US50 WV/VA VA/DC
DC US50 VA/DC DC/MD
MD US50 DC/MD MD528

A clickable map could require you to click on hundreds of short individual segments from one major or not-so-major intersection to the next, unless a shortcut option was provided for one-click entry of a highway from border to border.

My own large cmap list file was a gradual effort, with the Interstates done state-by-state in a few weeks of snippets of free time evenings and weekends, U.S. routes the same when that was rolled out later, and lesser efforts as some Canadian and state route sets came online (the various European route systems were easy, since I have zero mileage on the other side of the pond).  Reconstructing my travels, especially from 1972-2003 where my North America wall map is my main record of where I've driven, was the hardest part for me, but should be less difficult for those of you with less time behind the wheel and/or more diligence in tracking your travels.

[Alex]

My own large cmap list file was a gradual effort, with the Interstates done state-by-state in a few weeks of snippets of free time evenings and weekends, U.S. routes the same when that was rolled out later, and lesser efforts as some Canadian and state route sets came online (the various European route systems were easy, since I have zero mileage on the other side of the pond).  Reconstructing my travels, especially from 1972-2003 where my North America wall map is my main record of where I've driven, was the hardest part for me, but should be less difficult for those of you with less time behind the wheel and/or more diligence in tracking your travels.

I have a 2001 atlas with all of the roads I have driven/rode upon highlighted (just started a 2011 one!). I update my cmap list from time to time, just working on a state or two at a time and coming back to it later. I have all of my Interstates added, but have only added a few areas of US and state highways. I figure there is no rush to get it all logged, so I work on it when I am in the mood.

[njroadhorse]

I have not clinched any of New Jersey's US routes, but I am about 10 or so miles from clinching US 46 and the same goes for US 206.

[froggie]

I have a 2001 atlas with all of the roads I have driven/rode upon highlighted (just started a 2011 one!). I update my cmap list from time to time, just working on a state or two at a time and coming back to it later. I have all of my Interstates added, but have only added a few areas of US and state highways. I figure there is no rush to get it all logged, so I work on it when I am in the mood.

Pretty much the same thing here...

[Bickendan]

I've done mine all from memory or as I take the trip.

[huskeroadgeek]

I have very few highways I've actually "clinched" because I've never taken a trip for the express purpose of "clinching" specific highways. Frankly, it wasn't something I ever even thought about until I noticed other people keeping track of all of the highways they've clinched. I've been interested in county collecting for awhile and my primary purposes for trips have usually been business/family/sightseeing and secondarily county collecting. Since I'm more into county collecting than road clinching, if I'm taking a trip for a reason other than pure sightseeing, I'll pick a route that goes through the most counties in the shortest possible distance, which usually makes it harder to clinch highways.

So since I've never taken trips in order to clinch specific highways, the highways I've actually been on make up a patchwork of segments here and there. It would take awhile for me to go back and determine where I might have actually clinched a US highway in a state. The only US highway I've clinched in my home state of Nebraska is US 26, and I really can't count that one anymore since they've realigned it around Ogallala since I've been on it. I only lack the northern few miles of US 77 and the southern few miles of US 73 and US 159. (I've clinched all of the interstate mileage in Nebraska except for I-129). Off the top of my head, I know I've clinched the entire length of US highways in some other states-longer ones would include US 167 in Arkansas and US 71 in Missouri. I also clinched all of US 65 in Arkansas before they rerouted it with I-530 around Pine Bluff. I also know I've clinched US 60 and US 62 in Illinois-pretty easy since they both last for only about 1 mile in the very southern tip of the state.

I'm a little better with interstates-but most of the interstates I've clinched are 3dis. The longest 2di interstate I've clinched is the western I-84.

[bugo]

I have US 73 in Nebraska.  I have all of US 75 north of the US 73 interchange, except for the part between NE 2 and US 34.  I also have all of I-129 in both NE and IA.

I also have all of US 77 Iowa.  Not a hard road to clinch.

[hbelkins]

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Keep in mind that the "segments" you'd enter can be pretty long, and if you've clinched a U.S. highway in your state (or any other), the only "segment" you need to enter under the present setup would be just one short line, from one border to the other unless the route begins or ends in your state, or goes through another state along the way.  For example, if you've done all of U.S. 50 from coast-to-coast, you'd need to enter short lines for just 15 segments -- CA, NV, UT, CO, KS, MO, IL, IN, OH, VA, DC, and two for WV and MD (since the route enters western MD then reenters eastern WV, before returning to MD on the other side of DC):

CA US50 I-80BL(1A) CA/NV
NV US50 CA/NV NV/UT
UT US50 NV/UT UT/CO
CO US50 UT/CO CO/KS
KS US50 CO/KS KS/MO
MO US50 KS/MO MO/IL
IL US50 MO/IL IL/IN
IN US50 IL/IN IN/OH
OH US50 IN/OH OH/WV
WV US50 OH/WV WV/MD
MD US50_W WV/MD MD/WV
WV US50_E MD/WV WV/VA
VA US50 WV/VA VA/DC
DC US50 VA/DC DC/MD
MD US50 DC/MD MD528

Well in that case I might join the fun, because I'd only be interested in logging US and interstate highways clinched in a particular state. I don't care to record for posterity, nor do I have an insatiable need for everyone to know, that I "clinched" 15 miles of US 151 in Wisconsin, so I wouldn't bother recording and updating every segment of every US route I've driven on. i'd just worry about when I got a route completed in a state. That might put me way behind mileage-wise if there is some sort of competition aspect to it (like on the mob-rule county tracking site) but oh well...

[Scott5114]

I posted an idea for a doable interactive thing that would make using the clinched highway site easier, posted aquí to keep from derailing this thread.

[yakra]

However, as was also discussed earlier, it would be a hellacious undertaking (possibly not worth the effort), and may not even be technically possible given how the project is set up.

I don't reach that same conclusion at all. It's a matter of having a web-based interface to edit the .list file stored on-server. Clicking on each individual segment shouldn't be necessary.
Jake discusses one possibility for shift-clicking. It really seems quite easy...

[froggie]

Perhaps...I can be convinced of course if someone comes up with a viable option.

But then there's the server issue.  Tim's already complaining about processing time from the number of points, and there's still numerous states/provinces left to do.

[Bickendan]

^And countries.

[yakra]

Doing this client-side via JS should make for a bit of I/O, but the CPU time hit (server-side) should be negligible.