Clinched Highway Mapping

yakra · Joined: 30 Jul 2008 Posts: 2600 Location: Area Code 207

• Texarkana Freeway Added to Interstate 69 System
http://i69texasalliance.com/NewsUpdates/update9.25.13Texarkana.html

rickmastfan67 · Joined: 14 Jul 2008 Posts: 2031 Location: Pittsburgh, PA

This has been posted in the field for awhile. Just thought I'd bump it up so that it's not forgotten when the new I-2, I-69E, & I-69C files are submitted.

yakra · Joined: 30 Jul 2008 Posts: 2600 Location: Area Code 207

I submitted this to Tim on the 6th, along with Interstates 2, 69C, 69E, and 69ERob.
So these 5 routes should all be up in the HB relatively soon.

yakra · Joined: 30 Jul 2008 Posts: 2600 Location: Area Code 207

TX I-369 et al are in the HB now.

oscar_voss · Joined: 27 Jul 2008 Posts: 622 Location: Arlington VA

On I-69 (Sugar Land), there's a BamRd point on US 59 between TXSpr529 and TX 36, that's not replicated in the Interstate file between those two points. That throws off the multiplex detector, which incorrectly indicates that I'm missing the southern end of the Interstate segment even though I've traveled that part of US 59. I suggest that BamRd be either added to the Interstate route file (perhaps as a hidden point), or better still (since BamRd isn't in use for US 59) deleted from the US 59 file.

I'm correctly credited, or not credited, for portions of the other newly-added Texas Interstates.

mapcat · Joined: 08 Oct 2011 Posts: 150 Location: United States

yakra · Joined: 30 Jul 2008 Posts: 2600 Location: Area Code 207

BamRd is at least its own half-interchange, the last access to/from the east for the frontage roads and local area, before the at-grade jct of TXSpr529.
I say half-interchange because the ramps to/from the west are the last ones before TX36 (and are signed for it). Thus I'd consider the west half part of the TX36 interchange.

It's common in Texas, the way the frontage roads are often set up, to have 50% overlapping diamonds.
I almost wanted to add a point for Louise St / Reese Rd for a minute, but saw that what looked like an interchange there was just the west half of the FM2218 interchange overlapping with the east half of the TX36.
Spend enough time working with TX waypoint files, and you'll see this stuff pop up quite a bit, and get a good feel for how it works. Throw the occasional half-interchange into the mix and then things start to get fun. Very Happy

I've added BamRd to my local I-69Sug file.

yakra · Joined: 30 Jul 2008 Posts: 2600 Location: Area Code 207

BamRd added to I-69Sug.
The US59 concurrency is fixed.