Clinched Highway Mapping

[Alps]

139 is a headache...

139 itself starts at 1/9, next point would be merge with 139_U (Upper), next point would be junction I-78 at Jersey Ave., next point would be the state line probably.

The lower route starts at 1/9 and has its other endpoint at I-78. It has no other interchanges. The upper route's western end is Kennedy Blvd, there are surface streets that may be of interest, and its eastern end is I-78 where it joins the lower route. Neither route continues into the tunnel.

Wrong, the lower route is concurrent with I-78 until the state line.  Check it out.

It looked like you had NJ 13 in there despite being unsigned - again, I'd argue to include any officially designated route.

NJ 13 is more likely to get pulled than the others added, although there is at least some evidence that it exists as a separate designation (a 0 mile marker at its western end is visible in GMSV). The current policy for state routes is that unsigned routes are not intentionally included. I think many of us appreciate the ideal of completeness, but consider (for example) the hundreds of really short unsigned routes in Connecticut. There's a point of diminishing returns, at least for the first pass on the state routes, and whether the route is signed is a reasonable approximation of that point.

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I'd vote to remove NJ 13 then.  It truly is unsigned - every NJ route has a mile marker 0 more or less, signed or not.

[oxlahun]

Wrong, the lower route is concurrent with I-78 until the state line.  Check it out.

You're correct. I'll submit the correction soon (with a few others that are coming up as we proof the system).

I'd vote to remove NJ 13 then.  It truly is unsigned - every NJ route has a mile marker 0 more or less, signed or not.

Done before you voted for it.

[treichard]

Mexican autopistas -- both the federal and state -D expressways -- have been added to the Clinched Highway Mapping site.  Now most of the North American freeway systems are included.

http://cmap.m-plex.com/index.php

[SSOWorld]

Cool - when does Japan get started

[rickmastfan67]

Cool - when does Japan get started

You offering?

[njroadhorse]

Hey I figured I'd better bring this to someone's attention.  The updates for my data haven't been showing up lately.  I've sent my list file in twice within the past two weeks and the updates have not showed up.  It showed a mileage increase, but when I went to check the highways I updated, there was no change.  Also, the date for one of my highways is not recognized anymore on the website and it did before.

[treichard]

1. Look at the email you sent and make sure you sent it to the right address and that a properly named .list file is attached.

2. If the email and .list file were both in order, then allow 7 days for processing.

3. On the 8th or subsequent day, contact the webmaster (not this forum) if there is a problem.

[yakra]

Hey I figured I'd better bring this to someone's attention.  The updates for my data haven't been showing up lately.  I've sent my list file in twice within the past two weeks and the updates have not showed up.  It showed a mileage increase, but when I went to check the highways I updated, there was no change.  Also, the date for one of my highways is not recognized anymore on the website and it did before.

It looks like you've signed up for The CMap project's forum - it's probably the best place for discussions of this nature.

I see in your log file there's a lot of entries for FL and NJ state highways. These two systems are still In Development (and thus grayed out in the Highway Browser); I imagine that's your biggest reason for updates not showing.

I bet the mileage increase was due to newly traveled segments on highways that have already been activated on the site, and that rather than check those you just had a look at some of the in-development routes.

For the route no longer recognized, there should be a line in the log file indicating what the problem is - most likely listing a bad point in your list file.

We try to avoid changes to the highway data that'll break anyone's .list file...
If a waypoint label changes (e.g. due to a route being renumbered or decommissioned, a street renamed, etc.) we'd leave an invisible copy of the waypoint in place with the old label, so people don't have to change their lists. ...That is, if somebody's using the label. Otherwise we don't bother making the invisible copy.
One possibility is a point label in your .list got changed out from under you when the person maintaining that highway forgot to check whether that label was in use. Again, we try not to do that.

Another possibility: a highway was relocated, removing a point.
When the Brookfield bypass opened CT US7 just didn't connect to CT25 anymore.
Check the updates page; if this was the case the change is most likely listed here.

HTH!

[yakra]

What exactly is required to "compile" a highway system?

I'm interested in getting Indiana State Highways on the site.

Tim, would you care to field this question? 

Anything more specific aside, best I can offer at the moment is:
"Come hang out at the CHM forum"
and maybe a "contact the webmaster"

[froggie]

Can't speak directly for Tim, but he did mention sometime over the summer that he's at his limit for collaborators.

[yakra]

There was the recent thread about finally easing a few new collaborators into the process, but I've not seen any more there in a bit (including Tim helping Hawaii get started; I know James and Andy were polishing up their respective states' I/US routes first). Three new collabs joining the project already seems Borderline A Lot, and I don't know how much crazier a fourth would make things, so `sprolly best to leave that question to Tim.

[Duke87]

Is something wrong with the site? Everything's 403ing for me.

[rickmastfan67]

Tim's trying something.

[treichard]

Two new highway systems are available in Europe at Clinched Highway Mapping.
http://cmap.m-plex.com/index.php

Travelers can now mark their travels on these highways:

- Italy Select Named Motorways (these include the named motorways without an explicit A designation and include a few raccordi autostradale and tangenziale). Data provided by me.
- Spain Select Autonomous Community Motorways (these include the autonomous community routes with an explicit motorway designation and some of the other A. C. routes that are mostly or completely composed of motorway sections): Data provided by Christopher Steig and me.

We have one motorway system remaining to finish before completing the first phase of our Europe coverage.

Here are the highways we presently cover in Europe:

[treichard]

Two new highway systems are available for tracking cumulative travel at http://cmap.m-plex.com/index.php .

- New Jersey State Highways. Data provided by J. Proctor.
- International European Roads in Austria and Denmark. Data provided by me.

The latter system is the E-Road network that spans Europe and western Asia.  In Austria, these highways are mostly redundant with the motorways and expressways (A & S routes), and in Denmark, these constitute much of the principal trans-national motorway network.  We will be adding more countries' worth of E Roads over the coming months.

[treichard]

Since the last update here, lots more highways have been added to the Clinched Highway Mapping site.
http://cmap.m-plex.com/

1. New Brunswick Provincial Highways have been added. Data provided by Eric Bryant.

2. Spain National Motorways have also been added.  Data provided by Christopher Steig and me.

This latter addition nearly completes our coverage of European motorway systems.  One European traveler's map now looks like this:



3. Si Hollett and I have also made a lot of progress on the extensive International European Road network.  This system largely duplicates the motorways and expressways of countries full of them, serves as the motorway network in other countries, and fills in the gaps there and in the countries without extensive motorway networks.

Progress map:

[pianocello]

Could someone put in a request in the CHM forum to add IL-97? I forgot my password

Many thanks

[froggie]

IL 97 is in there.

[treichard]

Since the last update, we have more highways available for travel tracking and mapping:

- Albania Motorways - provided by me.
- Hawaii State Highways - provided by Oscar Voss.
- International European Roads in Netherlands, Latvia - by Si Hollett.
- International European Roads in Croatia, Italy, Poland, Slovakia - by me.

[english si]

The CHM forum's been down for a few days now - any idea when it'll be back up?

[rickmastfan67]

The CHM forum's been down for a few days now - any idea when it'll be back up?

It is back up, but hard to get into.  You might have the best luck getting into it via Firefox.  Because I'm personally still having problems getting into it via IE (still getting the "Server Maintenance" message), but can access it via FF with no problems (besides it being a tad slow).
http://clinched.s2.bizhat.com/

[english si]

thanks

[froggie]

Because I'm personally still having problems getting into it via IE (still getting the "Server Maintenance" message),

For the record, I have not had the same problems with IE.

[rickmastfan67]

Because I'm personally still having problems getting into it via IE (still getting the "Server Maintenance" message),

For the record, I have not had the same problems with IE.

What version of IE are you running Froggie?  I have IE9 on my system.  And I've done everything to try to get them to load in it (deleting cookies, cache, you name it) with no luck.

[oscar]

Because I'm personally still having problems getting into it via IE (still getting the "Server Maintenance" message),

For the record, I have not had the same problems with IE.

What version of IE are you running Froggie?  I have IE9 on my system.  And I've done everything to try to get them to load in it (deleting cookies, cache, you name it) with no luck.

FWIW, I'm having no problem accessing the forum with IE7 at home, or with Firefox at work.