MN: US 169 BUS (Onamia, MN)

[navigator]

Is the route below worthy of inclusion? Onamia, MN has a road marked US169 BUS on Google Maps, although I haven't traveled it since I have been keeping track, so I'm unsure if there is any signage along the route

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Onamia,+MN+56359/@46.0704779,-93.6753546,15z


Also, is Google Maps something that should be regarded as always dependable? MN15 in Assumption, MN looks to branch off to the north from the normal route, thru the town, on Google Maps in a strange way. I've never been through there so I don't know if the road is physically marked as such. Thanks

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.6714697,-93.9155229,13z

[mapcat]

Froggie maintains Minnesota, so he'd likely have a more definitive answer, but no, it doesn't appear that BUS-169 is signed there, at least in 2014-2016 (date of the Street View imagery). The MN-25 spur appears to be signed as a county highway in Street View, so it appears that there's nothing to add there either.

Generally there are much better sources (typically from the state department of transportation) than Google, who not long ago let anyone edit their maps.

[froggie]

Generally, if a business route has enough signage, I'll consider including it.  But here's where we get into one of the quirks about "business routes" in Minnesota:  with only two exceptions (BUS 2 East Grand Forks and BUS 371 Brainerd), they are not part of the state highway system.  Instead, they are signed (haphazardly, if at all) by local jurisdictions along local and county routes.  I've included BUS 23/71 through Willmar because that set is fairly consistently signed.  Of the others I've heard about, I'm still trying to nail down their routings because there are only a couple signs along them.

That MN 25 "spur" is just Google being stupid.