OpenHistoricalMap/Projects/Route66

THIS IS A DRAFT - OPEN FOR & NEEDS DISCUSSION - PLEASE JOIN IN

The goal of this project is to be able to accurately represent Route 66 as it existed at the time of each of its various alignments. The focus is first on recreating the spatial information that was available from contemporaneous sources, road maps, possibly aerials, etc. Getting more granular details, such as number of lanes, various road surface modifications, turn restrictions, traffic lights, etc., would all be awesome, but is not part of the primary goal of getting initial complete coverage of the road's basic geometry. AGREE / DISAGREE?

Sources

Vector Data

County Road Maps for Historic Route 66

Please add to this list of candidate maps for recreating Historic Route 66. Route 66 was established on 1926-11-11, so ideally, we might find maps from both that time and prior to that time. Finding good and true start_date information for various segments may be very difficult. Need some thoughts on how to approach that. Identifying that information with confidence would be a herculean task... unless we are able to find a clever solution to obtaining this data.

Please note that the full history of Route 66 includes realignments in many states and we should account for those.

Route 66-era maps - need before and after 1926, if possible

State	County	Year	Map	Key cities on route
IL	Cook	1930	Map of Cook County, Illinois, 1930 : showing highways and forest preserves.
MO
OK
TX
NM	Statewide	1925	included in 1925 Rand McNally Auto Trails Map, which may lack appropriate spatial resolution
	Quay			Tucumcari
	Guadalupe
	Torrance
	Santa Fe			just barely crosses the SW corner
	Bernalillo			Albuquerque
	Cibola			Grants
	McKinley			Gallup
AZ	Statewide	1925	included in 1925 Rand McNally Auto Trails Map, which may lack appropriate spatial resolution
		1920	Arizona National Highways Association 1920
		1920s	Automobile Road from Holbrook to Albuquerque via National Old Trails Road (Auto. Club of So. Cal.)
	Apache	1937	Apache County Arizona General Highway and Transportation Maps, 1937 (9 sheets) 1:126,720
	Navajo	1918	Navajo County, State of Arizona, 1918	Holbrook
		1937	Navajo County Arizona General Highway and Transportation Maps, 1937 (8 sheets) 1:126,720
	Coconino	1921	Coconino County Arizona, 1921 1:250,000	Flagstaff
		1937	Coconino County Arizona General Highway and Transportation Maps, 1937 (14 sheets) 1:126,720
	Yavapai	1903	Yavapai County Arizona, 1903 1:425,000	Prescott
		1937	Yavapai County Arizona General Highway and Transportation Maps, 1937 (9 sheets) 1:126,720
	Mohave	1907	Map of Mohave County Arizona, 1907 1:380,000	Kingman this map leads me to believe there may be similar 1907 maps for all AZ counties
		1937	Mohave County Arizona General Highway and Transportation Maps, 1937 (14 sheets) 1:126,720
CA

Tagging standards

See also: Create a TagInfo project page & project file (TagInfo project file documentation).

Sources

Linking directly to your sources is a way to enable others to explore the history behind a road more deeply, so please be sure to link directly to your sources. Without these sources, users won't be able to verify your edits.

Here is a set of examples:

source:1=https://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/ncmaps/id/250/rec/6
source:1:name=McDuffie's map of Cumberland County, North Carolina 1930
source:2=http://www.vahighways.com/ncannex/route-log/us217.html
source:2:name=The NC Roads Annex.com: U.S. 217

Route relations

How should these be structured?

Realignments

How many versions were there?

Linking to minute sources for changes

Resources

• American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials minutes highway orders
• National Transportation Atlas Database - National Highway System Layer

Next Steps / Additional Considerations

Think about how the segments mapped in this project might be reused for both prior and subsequent road systems.