Clinched Highway Mapping

[treichard]

Back to site update announcements, the original point of this thread!

Two new highway systems have been added:

• Ireland Motorways, including a major increase in motorway mileage effective just two days ago when many motorways were officially extended or newly designated,
• Northern Ireland Motorways

Travels on these highways can now be mapped and tallied along with several highway systems in the USA and Canada.

Clinched Highway Mapping
http://cmap.m-plex.com/



We're working on Great Britain Motorways and a bunch of US state and Can. provincial highways for future updates.

[vdeane]

What exactly does the "Added new stats pages and new mapping" update mean?

[froggie]

He's revised the individual traveler's stats pages to a new format, along with maps.

[vdeane]

It only just starting showing up for me about a minute ago, and the site hasn't fully changed yet on my end.  Am I going to have to update any links to my page or will this be automatic later on?

[treichard]

From my point of view as the web site developer, today's update was HUGE and is over 4 months of work converting most of the site to a database-driven framework to make future expansion much easier to deal with and overhauling the design of most (but not all) of the web pages.  This weekend I deleted about 46000 web pages and map images, and the site is better than before.

From the viewpoint of the typical person browsing the site, some web pages are a different color now and a few new highways they've never ridden on have popped up.

[vdeane]

And there are a few more options for how to display the maps of clinched highway's on a user's page now.

Is it possible to smooth them out?  For some reason the highways seem to look uneaven/choppy.

[treichard]

I've added the highway data for the Great Britain Motorways.  These highways can now be marked as clinched.

We again have maps showing the fraction of our travelers who have clinched each highway segment.  Our few Great Britain travelers have clinched the highways shown in orange:



Additionally, several hundred US city/town insets have been added to the Map View lists.  You can now zoom in and see your travels in Greensboro, NC, for example:

[Bickendan]

The highway data for the Oregon State Highways, the Yukon Territorial Highways and Northwest Territories Territorial Highways have been added as clinchable.

[Alex]

Last time I sent my updated file, my clinched highways log got messed up. It seems to get messed up each time I email an update... Last update I went from having completed all miles for I-73, I-77, I-85, and I-95 in NC to none and also lost my clinch for I-405 Oregon, I-295 DC/MD, etc...

[Bickendan]

I'll take the rap for OR I-405. I had gone through and adjusted tags, cleaned up the files, etc...

I think the NC interstates had gotten fixed as well, but that's not my state/province. Not sure about I-295, though.

[froggie]

I-295 got changed due to removal of the ramps connecting it to the part of the SE Freeway that extends to Pennsylvania Ave.  Eventually, it'll get changed again to reflect the approved endpoint at the south end of the 11th St Bridge.

[Alps]

I-295 got changed due to removal of the ramps connecting it to the part of the SE Freeway that extends to Pennsylvania Ave.  Eventually, it'll get changed again to reflect the approved endpoint at the south end of the 11th St Bridge.

Even when those ramps were in there (when RFK stadium was in use), they didn't look used.  Keep us updated!

[oscar]

I-295 got changed due to removal of the ramps connecting it to the part of the SE Freeway that extends to Pennsylvania Ave.  Eventually, it'll get changed again to reflect the approved endpoint at the south end of the 11th St Bridge.

Even when those ramps were in there (when RFK stadium was in use), they didn't look used.  Keep us updated!

RFK Stadium is still in use, mainly for soccer games.

I drove the eastbound ramp last December before it was demolished, using the EagleBank Bowl at RFK as my excuse in case someone hassled me (nobody did).  I think the ramp was supposed to be closed even with the overhead saying it was closed "except for stadium games," but the orange barrels blocking the way were missing on the eastbound ramp (they were still there on the westbound ramp).  In any case, it was obvious from all the snall debris on the roadway that few people were using the ramp, and nobody was cleaning or otherwise maintaining it.

[treichard]

Michigan's state highway system is ready for mapping.  Thanks to Dave Filpus for collecting the data for these 146 highways.

The German Autobahn system of 156 routes/pieces of freeways is also ready, data provided by me. 

Travelers can now include portions of these highways in the list of traveled segments and have them mapped at the Clinched Highway Mapping site.
http://cmap.m-plex.com/index.php

Michigan state highways:


German autobahnen:

[WillWeaverRVA]

Just sent in an update. Really like what you've done with the site lately.

[exit322]

When I get more time, I'll have to work on my overall map.

[treichard]

Three more highway systems were activated today:

In Europe:
Austria Freeways (Autobahnen)
Austria Expressways (Schnellstrassen)


In N. Am.:
DC district highways


Update your Clinched Highway Maps at
http://cmap.m-plex.com/index.php

[treichard]

We've added two new state highway systems to the CHM site.

- Iowa State Highways.
- New York State Highways.

Travelers can now highlight their travels on these highways.

Thanks to Jeff Morrison and Jim Teresco for providing the highway data.

[treichard]

South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Maine state highways are now added to the Clinched Highway Mapping site.  Travelers can now track their travels on these state highway systems.

Thanks to Jeff Morrison and Eric Bryant for providing the highway data.

[treichard]

A crude multiplex detector has been launched at the Clinched Highway Mapping site.
http://cmap.m-plex.com/index.php

If a traveler has noted that s/he has clinched one route along a multiplex but not one or more of the concurrent routes, the new page will suggest the concurrent routes.  So if you drove all of I-80 in PA but didn't realize you also traveled on a part of US 209, this page will remind you.

Look for the "Concurrent" link at the top of your stats pages.

[vdeane]

I noticed that the page said this might automatically get added in the files in the future.  Could you not do that please, for those of us that are only keeping track of certain systems (for example, I only keep track of Interstates and Ontario freeways) or you could make it an option or only for systems it detects in the file.

[SSOWorld]

I think you misinterpreted that - I believe the intent was to combine the individual segments into a single multisegment - not update user list files automatically.  The updating of routes should still be up to the user.

[vdeane]

I think you misinterpreted that - I believe the intent was to combine the individual segments into a single multisegment - not update user list files automatically.  The updating of routes should still be up to the user.

Looking at it again, I think your right.  Please disregard my last post.

[njroadhorse]

This is probably a really dumb question, but can I just put my data in a note as opposed to a .list file or are they the same thing?

[rickmastfan67]

This is probably a really dumb question, but can I just put my data in a note as opposed to a .list file or are they the same thing?

You just make your ".list" file in Wordpad.  Just when you go to save it, instead of having the .txt format in the file name, change it to .list.   The reason we need the user to do it on his end instead of just pasting it in an e-mail is to keep the extra work down to a minimum and leave that time for new features or new routes.