Bike route networks classification (ICN, NCN, RCN and LCN)

To add to this, some organizations like the American Cycling Association go to great lengths to publish quality bike tours (or “shared rides”) as guidebooks, available either to members or for a fee. Some of these tours are in a slow process of evolving into more formal designated routes, just as the TransAmerica Trail became U.S. Bicycle Route 1 76 in the 1970s, with the tour serving as a “corridor” for officials to consider. This causes us some difficulty, because we have mapped some tours but tagged them as essentially the same thing as designated routes. Now we find a need to somehow distinguish between the two.