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General Web Design Discussion / Re: Clinched Routes Highway Shields

« Last post by Jim on August 03, 2025, 11:03:25 am »

The latest is now up on the main site.  I gave it the same treatment tmstage had - get rid of all old files to make sure there was nothing straggling and reinstalled all fonts and shield templates and code.

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Other Discussion / Re: 10 Years of Travel Mapping

« Last post by Jim on August 03, 2025, 10:21:39 am »

I haven't been good at all about calling out the 10-year anniversaries of TM development milestones.  Looking back over at the Travel Mapping threads on AARoads and the GitHub commit history, we're at the point where things were really ramping up toward the opening up of Travel Mapping to general use in late summer 2015.  August 2015 saw the total reorganization of the web front end code into the general structure we have today (much of which lasted until the big 2020 changes).

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In-progress Highway Systems & Work / Re: usaush: United States Historic US Routes

« Last post by neroute2 on August 03, 2025, 02:25:52 am »

Here's what I wrote five years ago: https://forum.travelmapping.net/index.php?topic=97.msg17601;topicseen#msg17601

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In-progress Highway Systems & Work / Re: usaush: United States Historic US Routes

« Last post by si404 on August 03, 2025, 01:31:04 am »

So why do we include it, then?

You answered your own question!

I found some signs on the eastbound routing

Should we not include the eastbound because the westbound isn't signed?

Perhaps it should be finessed onto the eastbound route rather than using couplets to imply a bi-directional route.

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In-progress Highway Systems & Work / Re: usaush: United States Historic US Routes

« Last post by pderocco on August 03, 2025, 12:01:11 am »

The California Official map for 1964 can be found here:
https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~239521~5511847
It (and previous years) shows the actual US-40 coming into town from the north on a one-way pair consisting of 12th St and 16th St, with the southbound direction jogging on F St to 15th St. These connect to an apparent two-way N St, which uses a one-way pair on 7th St and 8th St to get back to M St, and out the west side of town. N St is now one way, so the obvious currently drivable route is L St to 7th St to M St. I drove that a year or so ago, but drove it in the other direction too.

The last two years in which US-40 is shown on the official maps are 1965 and 1966:
https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~239527~5511851
15th St and 16th St came down further to another one-way pair on P St and Q St. Then, another one-way pair on 3rd St and 5th St went back up to M St, whence it left town.

Whether anyone ever put up Historic US-40 signs on any of these routes, I don't know. I don't recall seeing any such signs anywhere in Sacramento when I drove around looking for that road, and I still don't see any "driving around" in GSV. So TM could remove it entirely from Sacramento, or use the cleaner 65/66 alignment, or the more "historic" 65 and before route. Is TM trying to show the actual signage on the ground, or the actual history?

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In-progress Highway Systems & Work / Re: usaush: United States Historic US Routes

« Last post by mapcat on August 02, 2025, 05:22:53 pm »

What's the westbound routing of Historic US 40 through Sacramento? I found some info about the segment from L St/15th St westward, but how does it get from CA 160 to L St? There's this jog in the trace around D St (not a through street) that makes it seem to follow 12th to...something...to 15th(?) westbound from the end of 160. I found some signs on the eastbound routing but nothing going the opposite direction.

I asked the same years ago and never got a response. There's no continuous signed route and no obvious implied route, so I was unable to mark that piece as clinched despite probably driving all the potential pieces.

So why do we include it, then?

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General Web Design Discussion / Re: Clinched Routes Highway Shields

« Last post by Jim on August 02, 2025, 05:11:40 pm »

Everything except the Malaysian shields are working fine, and I think I have another fix for that (need to add ' to the font name in the shields).

https://github.com/TravelMapping/Web/pull/858

These are on tmstage now.

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In-progress Highway Systems & Work / Re: usaush: United States Historic US Routes

« Last post by neroute2 on August 02, 2025, 04:39:41 pm »

What's the westbound routing of Historic US 40 through Sacramento? I found some info about the segment from L St/15th St westward, but how does it get from CA 160 to L St? There's this jog in the trace around D St (not a through street) that makes it seem to follow 12th to...something...to 15th(?) westbound from the end of 160. I found some signs on the eastbound routing but nothing going the opposite direction.

I asked the same years ago and never got a response. There's no continuous signed route and no obvious implied route, so I was unable to mark that piece as clinched despite probably driving all the potential pieces.

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General Web Design Discussion / Re: Clinched Routes Highway Shields

« Last post by cockroachking on August 02, 2025, 04:35:26 pm »

Everything except the Malaysian shields are working fine, and I think I have another fix for that (need to add ' to the font name in the shields).

https://github.com/TravelMapping/Web/pull/858

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In-progress Highway Systems & Work / Re: usaush: United States Historic US Routes

« Last post by mapcat on August 02, 2025, 04:09:50 pm »

What's the westbound routing of Historic US 40 through Sacramento? I found some info about the segment from L St/15th St westward, but how does it get from CA 160 to L St? There's this jog in the trace around D St (not a through street) that makes it seem to follow 12th to...something...to 15th(?) westbound from the end of 160. I found some signs on the eastbound routing but nothing going the opposite direction.