Routing

I spend a significant part of this weekend trying to finish up some work on the South Dakota portion of the U.S. Bikeway System. A lot of the time was spent entering the route information into maps of sorts.

I took what I’d done to establish the actual routes and transferred them to MapMyRide maps. For ease of tweaking, etc., I took each route and divided them into 30 miles (plus or minus) segments.

Now I have a bit more stuff to collect from towns and counties. I do have some more to send them. My initial goal was to have this done by now to make application for routes during this spring’s application process. Now it’s looking more like the fall session. The AASHTO people only meet on this twice per year.

In other noise, I’ve ordered a book on the Great Divide bike route. I want to study up as much as I can. Pretty soon it will be time to start planning the first installment of this. There’s a lot of unknowns which sort of add to the excitement.

Ride On.