Ohio

V・T・E Ohio, United States

latitude: 40.25, longitude: -83

Browse map of Ohio 40°15′00.00″ N, 83°00′00.00″ W

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Ohio is a state in the United States at latitude 40°15′00.00″ North, longitude 83°00′00.00″ West.

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Local Organization and Events

There is an idle OpenStreetMap meetup group for central Ohio. This group needs an organizer to schedule group meetings. Do you want to help lead the growth of OSM in Ohio? 17 group members are waiting for the next meeting.

Active mappers

• Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) – Greater Cincinnati, Greater Dayton, occasionally elsewhere in the west and south
• Vid the Kid - Mostly Central Ohio
• Stefan Bethke – Mostly between Zanesville and Marietta
• Mike_Sherman – Mostly North Eastern Ohio
• skorasaurus - Cleveland and lesser extent, Cuyahoga County
• jwolter - Mostly Cleveland Southwest

Tagging suggestions for Ohio

Most of these examples are taken from the Cincinnati area, but feel free to add your own from elsewhere in the state:

Key	Value	Description	Examples
highway	motorway	Interstate highways, including loops and spurs; significant portions of US and state routes built to Interstate standards (high-speed, fully access-controlled).	I-71 I-275 Ohio Turnpike (I-76/80/90) Ronald Reagan Cross County Highway (SR 126)
	trunk	Selected U.S. and state routes not built to Interstate standards. High-speed, limited-access, divided highways with at least two lanes in each direction. May have occasional traffic lights and unlit street-level crossings, but mostly controlled-access with on- and off-ramps. Two-lane undivided (but still limited-access) sections of Trunk might make sense if they are extensions of divided Trunk highway or Motorway.	Appalachian Highway (SR 32) Columbia Parkway (US 50) Various Cincinnati viaducts
	primary	Other U.S. routes; major state routes, such as those that connect larger county seats not directly connected by US routes, or are important connectors between primary or higher roads. An example of which routes might be promoted to primary can be found here. Sections of primary roads generally should not "dead-end" at lower-class roads.	US 22 US 40 SR 4 SR 309
	secondary	Other state routes; good connecting roads, such as those that connect cities not directly connected by state routes, or are important connectors between secondary or higher roads. Sections of secondary roads generally should not "dead-end" at lower-class roads.	SR 48 Fra CR 3
	tertiary	County routes (signed or unsigned) and other major local roads, typically along section lines or connecting towns.	Loveland–Miamiville Road (CR 75)
	unclassified	Rural roads, serving mostly farmland or forest properties, of little to no value as through routes.
	residential	City/neighborhood streets not qualifying as tertiary or higher, or rural roads which have become lined with houses.
ref	I-##	Interstate highways.	I-71 I-670
	US ##	US highways.	US 40
	SR ##	State routes. Do not use OH ### or US:OH ###. Ohio state routes can be distinguished from other state's routes using route relations.	SR 13
	CR ## C-##	County routes. This probably should only be used for roads where the county route number is signed as clearly as on a state route; otherwise, consider putting this in loc_ref instead. The TIGER data often includes name_1=County Highway xx in counties that signpost county routes.
	TR ## T-##	Township routes. This probably should only be used for roads where the township route number is signed as clearly as on a state route; otherwise, consider putting this in loc_ref instead.
maxspeed	105 65 mph	Most rural and suburban motorways and trunks.	I-270
	97 60 mph	Some urban motorways and trunks.
	89 55 mph	Most rural primary, secondary, tertiary roads. Some urban motorways and trunks.	SR 605
	80 50 mph	Some rural tertiary, unclassified roads. Some major urban and suburban roads.
	72 45 mph	Some rural tertiary, unclassified roads. Many major urban and suburban roads.
	64 40 mph	Some rural tertiary, unclassified roads. Many urban and suburban boulevards.
	56 35 mph	Some rural unclassified roads. Many urban and suburban feeder roads.
	48 30 mph	Some urban and suburban roads.
	40 25 mph	Many urban, suburban, and residential streets.
	32 20 mph	Some school service roads.
	24 15 mph	Many urban alleys.
	16 10 mph	Some private roads.
	8 5 mph	Some private (especially unpaved) roads. Generally, "aisles" in parking lots.

Note that speed limits in OSM are typically specified in kilometers per hour. However, you can now tag speed limits in miles per hour instead:

maxspeed=25 mph

Just remember to use a space and lowercase the "mph" abbreviation. See United States roads tagging for more information.

Relations

Route relations

Some highways are moving from the old way-based tagging scheme to the new route relations. Each relation should have network and ref keys, as well as a symbol key with the URL to the SVG image found on the highway's Wikipedia article. If the entire route has the same name, the name key may also be specified on the relation.

For divided highways in Ohio, roles are entered when adding relations to the constituent ways. (Potlatch provides a small textbox on the relation line for entering roles.) The de facto standard in Ohio is to add roles corresponding to the signposted direction of each carriageway (i.e., north).

Interstate highways

Mark all member relations as network=US:I. Please keep this list synchronized with Interstate Highways Relations.

Number	Super-relation	Relation	Status and notes
70		943230 943230	Complete in Ohio. One relation for both directions, with role=west/east.
71		71019 71019	Complete in Ohio. One relation for both directions, with role=north/south.
74		1444077 1444077	Complete in Ohio, with role=east/west.
75	71023 71023	332637 332637 (northbound) 332641 332641 (southbound)	Complete in Ohio.
ALT 75		2118037 2118037	Missing linkups to I-75 at both ends.
76		933452 933452	From Portage–Mahoning county line to near Boardman.
77		1027749 1027749	From Marietta/WV border to Stark–Summit county line; from the junction with I-76 in Akron to the northern terminus in Cleveland. One relation for both directions, with role=north/south.
80	294979 294979	396249 396249	Complete in Ohio, but needs to be double-checked. One relation both ways; tagged with role=east/west.
90	303058 303058	1217292 1217292	Complete in Ohio, but needs to be double-checked. One relation both ways; tagged with role=east/west.
270		123301 123301	Complete. One relation for both directions, with role=north/south/east/west as signed.
271		165600 165600	Complete. One relation for both directions, with role=north/south.
275		70932 70932	Complete. One relation covers both directions, with role=east/west/north/south as signed, from Cross County Hwy. east to KY state line.
277		286177 286177
280		1690662 1690662
470		1122162 1122162
471		112436 112436	Complete. One relation for both directions, with role=north/south.
475		286175 286175
480		165671 165671	Complete. One relation for both directions, with role=east/west.
490		286190 286190
670		163715 163715	Complete. One relation for both directions, with role=east/west as signed.
675		1690667 1690667
680		286180 286180

U.S. Routes

Mark all member relations as network=US:US. Please keep this list synchronized with United States Numbered Highway Relations‎. If "status" is blank for a column, that probably means the relation is not yet used in Ohio.

Number	Super-relation	Relation	Status and notes
6		113181 113181	From Sandusky–Erie county line to Huron. May need correction in Huron.
20		112101 112101	Partial in Lake and Cuyahoga counties
22		70972 70972	Complete in Ohio.
23		164610 164610	Scioto/Pike county line to Michigan border.
24	121136 121136	331090 331090	Complete in Ohio.
25		271841 271841	Complete. US 25 in Ohio is very short.
27		189086 189086	Complete in Ohio.
30		120337 120337	From Allen–Hancock county line to Wayne–Stark county line; from west of jct SR 11 to WV border.
30 ALT		207918 207918	Complete (Dalton).
33		164611 164611	Complete in Ohio. Officially east/west in Ohio, despite odd number.
35		165049 165049	Complete in Ohio. Officially east/west in Ohio, despite odd number.
35 BUS		185772 185772	Complete (Xenia).
36		168035 168035	From Urbana to east terminus in Uhrichsville.
40		82010 82010	Complete in Ohio.
42		168032 168032	From Ohio River to Richland–Ashland county line. role=north/south where appropriate, reflecting official direction despite even number.
50		62152 62152	Complete in Ohio, with role=west/east where appropriate.
50 TRUCK		1142913 1142913	Downtown Cincinnati to Columbia–Tusculum area.
50 BUS		189386 189386	Complete (Athens), role=north/south (?).
52		271863 271863	From IN state line to Brown–Adams county line, with role=east/west per SLD.
62		98372 98372	From KY border to Navarre. Officially east/west in Ohio, but signage may vary.
68		139077 139077	Complete in Ohio. Officially north/south in Ohio, despite even number.
127		184771 184771	From Ohio river to Eaton.
223		255177 255177 (northbound) 255178 255178 (southbound)
224		286224 286224
250		207792 207792	From west terminus in Sandusky to north of Milan; Ashland–Wayne county line to Cadiz; west of Bridgeport to WV border. Use role=east/west where necessary.
322		169092 169092
422

Appalachian Development Highways

Mark all member relations as network=US:Corridor. Please keep this list synchronized with United States Numbered Highway Relations.

Corridor	Relation	Status and notes
B
B-1
C	165047 165047	Scioto/Pike county line to north terminus at Columbus. One relation for both directions, with role=north/south.
C-1
D	114680 114680	Complete in Ohio. One relation for both directions, with role=east/west.

Forest routes

Mark National Forest Development Routes as network=US:NFD and Forest Roads as network=US:USDA:Wayne.

State routes

Main article: /Route relations/State routes

Mark all member relations as network=US:OH. Bannered routes like "ALT" can be tagged network=US:OH:Alternate and modifier=ALT for good measure. Ohio's Byways routes can be tagged network=US:OH:Byway.

County routes

Mark all member relations as network=US:OH:ABC where ABC is the uppercase county abbreviation. (See map of abbreviations below.) Specifying the county is important, because Ohio counties use a wide variety of shield designs, not just those specified in the Ohio MUTCD.

If used, county route relations can potentially become very numerous. Since such route relations should be, by definition, confined to a specific county, finding out if a particular route relation exists and its extent shouldn't be too difficult in map editors. For these reasons, a table of county route relations is not included here.

A full listing of county, township, and city route networks is available at Ohio/Route relations/Networks.

U.S. Bike Routes

Main article: /Route relations/Bicycle routes#U.S. Bike Routes

Mark all member relations as network=ncn; state=proposed; operator=AASHTO. Please keep this list synchronized with WikiProject U.S. Bicycle Route System.

State bike routes

Main article: /Route relations/Bicycle routes#State bike routes

Mark all member relations as network=rcn. The lettered routes below are designated by ODOT; tag them as operator=Ohio Department of Transportation. (Most other routes are maintained by county park districts. For such routes that cross county lines, tag the individual ways, not the relation.)

Boundary relations

• United States: 148838 148838
• Ohio: 162061 162061

Counties

County borders were originally supplied by the USGS. Those boundaries are not of great precision. Also, that import process created a lot of overlapping ways, and didn't use the admin_level=* key.

Much work has been done on the county boundaries. There is now a boundary relation for each county, and all county boundary ways have been split and merged as necessary so that only one chain of non-overlapping ways defines the boundary between any two adjacent counties. (Along Ohio's border, Ohio's county boundaries were merged with the TIGER-imported state boundary. Generally, the boundaries of counties in adjacent states have not been modified, and remain sourced from imprecise USGS data.)

There are still tasks to be done, however. Where county and city boundaries overlap, they should be merged; the merged boundaries should have admin_level=6, unless of course they're also part of the state boundary, which would be 4. The accuracy of the USGS-sourced boundaries can be improved, by following the endpoints of TIGER data or clues visible in the aerial imagery; these clues might include visible property lines, and especially natural waterways. Check USGS topo maps when in doubt.

A very important task pertaining to county boundaries is not about the boundaries themselves, though the work can be done at the same time other improvements to the boundaries are made. The TIGER dataset was imported county by county. As a result, roads that cross county lines aren't connected in the resulting OSM data. These should be joined by collapsing duplicate nodes. A little bit trickier is when a road follows a county line, it will be duplicated in OSM data. The road should be split where it joins or leaves the county line (if applicable) and then one copy of it deleted, then any duplicate nodes collapsed. Then, the county boundary should be made to follow the road by adding the road to the applicable counties' relations, adding appropriate boundary tags to the road's way, and connecting the rest of the county boundary to it. If this is done, there should not be a separate way parallel to the road representing the county line. This process might be called "TIGER welding".

Tasks and Progress

Code	Name	Relation	Boundary Source*	City Boundary Merging	TIGER welding
ADA	Adams	911255 911255	KY = T; Bro, Hig, Pik, Sci = U
ALL	Allen	911260 911260	U
ASD	Ashland	911247 911247	U
ATB	Ashtabula	350382 350382	maritime = M; land PA = T; Tru, Gea, land Lak = U
ATH	Athens	911269 911269	U
AUG	Auglaize	911251 911251	U
BEL	Belmont	911264 911264	WV = T; Moe, Nob, Gue, Has, Jef = U
BRO	Brown	163283 163283	KY = T; Cle = Yt; Cli, Hig, Ada = U		Cle
BUT	Butler	104783 104783	IN = T; Pre, Mot, partial War = U; partial War, Ham = Yt		partial War, Ham?
CAR	Carroll	911249 911249	U
CHP	Champaign	180915 180915	Log, Uni, Mad, Cla = Yt; Mia, She = U		Log, Uni, Mad, Cla
CLA	Clark	180912 180912	Chp, Mad, Gre = Yt; Mot, Mia = U		Chp, Mad, Gre
CLE	Clermont	104779 104779	KY = T; Bro, Ham = Yt; War = U	Complete	Ham, Bro, KY
CLI	Clinton	104780 104780	Gre, Fay = Ty; Hig, Bro, War = U		Gre, Fay
COL	Columbiana	911253 911253	PA, WV = T; Jef, Car, Sta, Mah = U
COS	Coshocton	241687 241687	Mus, Lic, Kno = Yt; Hol, Tus, Gue = U		Mus, Lic, Kno
CRA	Crawford	911262 911262	U
CUY	Cuyahoga	350381 350381	maritime = M; land Lak, Gea, Sum, Med, land Lor = U
DAR	Darke	911258 911258	IN = T; Mer, She, Mia, Mot, Pre = U
DEF	Defiance	911265 911265	IN = T; Wil, Hen, Put, Pau = U
DEL	Delaware	178339 178339	YTt	Fra	Complete
ERI	Erie	350378 350378	maritime = MT; land Lor, Hur, land San = U	Ott	Ott?
FAI	Fairfield	178391 178391	Yt		Complete
FAY	Fayette	270616 270616	Yt		Complete
FRA	Franklin	177915 177915	YTt	Mad, Del	Complete
FUL	Fulton	911263 911263	MI = T; Luc = Yt; Hen, Wil = U	Luc	Luc
GAL	Gallia	911268 911268	WV = T; Law, Jac, Vin, Meg = U
GEA	Geauga	911256 911256	U
GRE	Greene	104781 104781	Yt		Complete
GUE	Guernsey	911270 911270	U
HAM	Hamilton	104784 104784	KY = T; But, War, Cle, IN = Yt	Complete	Complete
HAN	Hancock	911252 911252	U
HAR	Hardin	911267 911267	Uni = Yt; Log, Aug, All, Han, Wya, Mar = U		Uni
HAS	Harrison	911248 911248	U
HEN	Henry	911257 911257	Luc = Yt; Woo, Put, Def, Wil, Ful = U	Luc	Luc
HIG	Highland	271300 271300	Fay, Ros = Yt; Pik, Ada, Bro, Cli = U		Fay, Ros
HOC	Hocking	270614 270614	Ros, Pic, Fai, Per = Yt; Ath, Vin = U		Ros, Pic, Fai, Per
HOL	Holmes	911250 911250	U
HUR	Huron	911254 911254	U
JAC	Jackson	911266 911266	U
JEF	Jefferson	911261 911261	WV = T; Bel, Has, Car, Col = U
KNO	Knox	185763 185763	Cos, Lic, Del, Mrw = Yt; Ric, Asd, Hol = U		Cos, Lic, Del, Mwr
LAK	Lake	350372 350372	maritime = M; land Atb, Gea, land Cuy = U
LAW	Lawrence	911271 911271	WV, KY = T; Sci, Jac, Gal = U
LIC	Licking	178389 178389	Yt		Complete
LOG	Logan	184059 184059	Uni, Chp = Yt; She, Aug, Har = U		Uni, Chp
LOR	Lorain	350377 350377	maritime = M; land Cuy, Med, Asd, Hur, land Eri = U
LUC	Lucas	350384 350384	land Ott, Woo, Hen, Ful, land MI = Yt; maritime = M	Complete	Complete
MAD	Madison	177916 177916	Yt	Fra	Complete
MAH	Mahoning	911312 911312	PA = T; Col, Sta, Por, Tru = U
MAR	Marion	185761 185761	Mrw, Del, Uni = Yt; Har, Wya, Cra = U		Mrw, Del, Uni
MED	Medina	911294 911294	U
MEG	Meigs	911311 911311	WV = T; Gal, Vin, Ath = U
MER	Mercer	911290 911290	IN = T; Van, Aug, Dar = U
MIA	Miami	911306 911306	U
MOE	Monroe	911293 911293	WV = T; Was, Nob, Bel = U
MOT	Montgomery	104782 104782	Gre = Yt; War, But, Pre, Dar, Mia, Cla = U		Gre
MRG	Morgan	911302 911302	U
MRW	Morrow	185762 185762	Kno, Del, Mar = Yt; Cra, Ric = U		Kno, Del, Mar
MUS	Muskingum	241688 241688	Per, Lic, Cos = Yt; Gue, Nob, Mrg = U		Per, Lic, Cos
NOB	Noble	911300 911300	U
OTT	Ottawa	350380 350380	land Luc = Yt; maritime = MT; land San, Woo = U	Luc, Eri	Luc, Eri?
PAU	Paulding	911314 911314	IN = T; Def, Put, Van = U
PER	Perry	241689 241689	Hoc, Fai, Lic, Mus = Yt; Mrg, Ath = U		Hoc, Fai, Lic, Mus
PIC	Pickaway	178392 178392	Yt		Complete
PIK	Pike	911307 911307	U
POR	Portage	911288 911288	U
PRE	Preble	911259 911259	IN = T; Dar, Mot, But = U
PUT	Putnam	911301 911301	U
RIC	Richland	911309 911309	U
ROS	Ross	270615 270615	Hig, Fay, Pic, Hoc = Yt; Vin, Jac, Pik = U		Hig, Fay, Pic, Hoc
SAN	Sandusky	911303 911303	maritime = M; land Eri, Hur, Sen, Woo, land Ott = U
SEN	Seneca	911297 911297	U
SCI	Scioto	911291 911291	KY = T; Ada, Pik, Jac, Law = U
SHE	Shelby	911292 911292	U
STA	Stark	911298 911298	U
SUM	Summit	911310 911310	U
TRU	Trumbull	911299 911299	PA = T; Mah, Por, Gea, Atb = U
TUS	Tuscarawas	911305 911305	U
UNI	Union	178021 178021	Yt		Complete
VAN	Van Wert	911295 911295	IN = T; Pau, Put, All, Aug, Mer = U
VIN	Vinton	911308 911308	U
WAR	Warren	104778 104778	Ham, partial But, Gre = Yt; partial But, Mot, Cli, Cle = U		Ham, partial But
WAS	Washington	911289 911289	WV = T; Ath, Mrg, Nob, Moe = U
WAY	Wayne	911304 911304	U
WIL	Williams	911287 911287	IN, MI = T; Ful, Hen, Def = U
WOO	Wood	911313 911313	Luc = Yt; Ott, San, Sen, Han, Hen = U	Luc	Luc
WYA	Wyandot	911296 911296	U

*Boundary Sources:

• U: USGS data import
• M: USGS topographic map
• T: TIGER data import (state/municipality borders)
• Y: Yahoo! or other acceptable aerial imagery
• t: Implied from non-boundary TIGER data

Cities

The TIGER city limits have been imported for Ohio. There are a few pre-existing, hand-drawn boundaries that should be merged with the new data:

• Hamilton: hand-drawn hand-drawn TIGER TIGER
• Loveland: hand-drawn hand-drawn TIGER TIGER

The TIGER city limits import omitted the customary name:left=* and name:right=* tags on the ways that some renderers might potentially use to display both adjacent cities. Please consider adding them where appropriate. (To determine "left" and "right", imagine that the way is a oneway road and you are driving down that road.)

CDPs

In the city import process, census-designated places were included, which are not real cities; but just like actual cities, they were added with boundary=administrative and admin_level=8. They're just areas drawn arbitrarily for the Census for statistical purposes.

There seems to be agreement on talk-us that these shouldn't be tagged with boundary=administrative at all.

Clues that indicate a boundary might be a CDP is that it primarily follows roadway centerlines, and doesn't reflect well the actual boundaries of a community; that is, it might strangely omit houses on one side of the road, or it might include large chunks of farmland. One way to identify a CDP with certainty in Ohio is in its relation's tagging. The tiger:NAMELSAD tag will have the CDP's name with "CDP" added to the end. Wikipedia will also have an article on any CDP or municipality in Ohio, identifying whether or not it is a CDP. Finally, the Wikipedia article for each county in Ohio will have a section listing CDPs it contains, if any.

Since these CDPs do not relate to anything administrative, they should probably be stripped of their border=administrative and admin_level=8 tags. This should be done on the relation, and on the ways that make up the boundary (unless of course the ways are also parts of other administrative boundaries). The relation should retain its place=locality tag.

Counties with CDPs:

County	CDP admin tags removed?
Ashtabula County	yes
Athens County	yes
Belmont County	yes
Butler County	yes*
Clark County	yes
Clermont County	yes
Columbiana County	yes
Erie County	yes
Fairfield County	yes
Franklin County	yes
Geauga County	no
Greene County	no
Hamilton County	yes
Lake County	no
Lawrence County	no
Licking County	yes
Lorain County	no
Madison County	yes
Mahoning County	no
Montgomery County	no
Muskingum County	no
Pickaway County	yes
Portage County	no
Ross County	no
Sandusky County	no
Scioto County	no
Stark County	no
Summit County	no
Trumbull County	no
Warren County	no
Washington County	no

Counties without CDPs: Adams, Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Brown, Carroll, Champaign, Clinton, Coshocton, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Darke, Defiance, Delaware, Fayette, Fulton, Gallia, Guernsey, Hancock, Hardin, Harrison, Henry, Highland, Hocking, Holmes, Huron, Jackson, Jefferson, Knox, Logan, Lucas, Marion, Medina, Meigs, Mercer, Miami, Monroe, Morgan, Morrow, Noble, Ottawa, Paulding, Perry, Pike, Preble, Putnam, Richland, Seneca, Shelby, Tuscarawas, Union, Van Wert, Vinton, Wayne, Williams, Wood, Wyandot

Notes:

• *The CDP of South Middletown, in Butler County, seems to be missing.

County Abbreviations

ODOT has a system of 3-letter abbreviations for each county in Ohio. For most, the abbreviation is the same as the first three letters of the county name, but there are exceptions. These may be generally useful to us in a number of ways.