OpenStreetMap Numbered Routes

Federal, State, and County roads

Highways
Routes
Roads

Usage

All data comes from OpenStreetMap and is licensed under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) by the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF).

Layer Information

This service consists of a subset of features from OpenStreetMap.

This layer was prepared using osm2pgsql and Osmium.

Information has been clipped to the Kendall region. Features and attributes extracted for this service are as follows:

Numbered Routes

This layer is a bit different from the other transportation feature layers. It consists of any numbered routes, such as County, State, and Federal Highways, as well as Interstates. It is primarily a cartographic layer, and is not useful for routing or analysis.

Routes vs Roads

A route is not the same as a road. A numbered route, such as US 30, often consists of a number of different roads in sequence. A road may have its own name, speed limit, etc., but it participates in the route. It may participate in multiple routes, as with sections of US 30 / 34.

By putting route information into its own layer, we can more easily symbolize and work with routes.

Fields

Field Description
Ref The number / name of the route
Network What route network it belongs to
Name The name of the route
Operator The entity responsible for managing the route

Networks

In OpenStreetMap, network values follow a hierarchy.

US Interstates are tagged US:I. State routes, US:IL. County, US:IL:Kendall.