Route 66 - multiple relations?

[Minh_Nguyen (Minh Nguyễn)]

@ArgyleZombie

I did quite a bit of research over the last couple of days, making sure I could prove that the route was in the wrong place (before I noticed it said it was a cycle route), so I ran across some sites that may be helpful for you, to map the historical US Route 66.

Thanks, we’re collecting resources like this on the OSM Wiki. It’ll come in handy once we’re ready to take some focus off the Interstate system.

@ArgyleZombie

Finally, I was unaware that the US route 66 had been decommissioned so early. While looking at parts of the old route, I noticed the original TIGER data from 2008 still had some roads named as US Highway 66. And I thought that when I had been driving around northeastern Oklahoma in the 1990s and 2000s, I was still driving on US Highway 66. Are you sure that it was already only a state highway at that time?

Yes, AASHTO is the authority on those designations. They decommissioned U.S. 66 piecemeal as various Interstates bypassed it. The remaining segments from Missouri through Arizona were decommissioned in June 1985. (The AARoads Wiki maintains a comprehensive index of AASHTO minutes for determining when a U.S. Route, Interstate highway, or U.S. Bicycle Route changed in any significant way, though the minutes can often lack detail or context.)

TIGER 2005 (the version we imported in 2008) had a lot of very outdated names. Even today, the road names in TIGER often confuse U.S. Highways with state highways or county highways, especially if you look in the name_1=* and name_2=* keys. Street names and colloquial usage can also lag behind the official route designations by many years.