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[edit] Maryland Road Trip/Crawl

I'm planning a trip sometime in May to visit all of the major (sub-500) Maryland numbered routes, possibly in order. I'll be blogging about the trip and taking tons of pictures. While I was mostly just going to take "souvenir"-type photos, usually of the sign with people in it, I can also take pictures of the routes themselves and any significant landmarks along them. While we won't be driving the entire length of every road, I can adjust the plan if there's any sites in particular that could use photos. Additionally, if anyone has particular knowledge of local areas and wants to help plan some portions of the journey, I'd like to discuss this as well. Due to time limitations the trip will probably take place on the third and fourth weekends of May, and maybe the next weekend as well. Xerol (talk) 04:33, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Sounds great! The first bit of advice that I can give you for your trip is that due to some of the quirks in Maryland's system, visiting all of the routes in order wouldn't be easy, and would involve multiple trips back and forth across the Bay Bridge. One example would be the swapping of the designations 17 and 33. Routes 14 and 16 are on the Eastern Shore (there is no MD 15), while 17 is in Western Maryland, then 18 is back on the Eastern Shore. Likewise, while you are in the 30s in Western Maryland, you'll have to stop off in Talbot County to get 33. List of Maryland state highways should be useful to you as it gives all of the counties that each route passes through. Be sure to post a link to your blog here when you get it set up and good luck!-Jeff (talk) 12:32, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Have fun! When you have any photos to upload, I recommend putting them onto Commons. Here are some of the categories I have been putting all of my Maryland photos into: Category:Roads in Maryland. Cheers! --Bossi (talk • gallery • contrib) 12:42, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Sounds great. If I can get time off from work in May, I might be able to get some photos in Western Maryland. - Algorerhythms (talk) 14:59, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
I spend pretty much every workday driving around MoCo and PG, so just let me know if there are any specific requests in either county. Also, I upload all the photos I take in the field to those aforementioned categories -- all geocoded. --Bossi (talk • gallery • contrib) 21:28, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
I managed to get a few photos of MD 36, MD 55, and MD 638. I'd have more, but several pictures didn't turn out well. Such is the disadvantage of using a traditional camera rather than a digital camera. - Algorerhythms (talk) 01:00, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Any news on this? It looks like Xerol has been inactive. I hope we hear back soon; it's not every day that someone travels all over the state and allows us to use the pictures they take.-Jeff (talk) 17:54, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I don't do much editing but I do read pages just about daily so if you leave a message on my talk page I'll see it. I haven't had any luck getting free any of the recent weekends, but a Memorial Day weekend trip is possible. I also need to buy a new camera as my current one has some issues with pictures taken while in motion. Gas prices are also an issue, although with the trend I'd probably be better off taking the trip sooner than later. (I also find it humorous that a one-month absence means I'm inactive when my previous two were three and five months respectively.) Xerol (talk) 06:44, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Proposal to move Intercounty Connector to Maryland Route 200

According to a M.T.R post by Scott Kozel, he recently got word that at least one of the signs along the ICC work zone identifies the road as MD 200. Given that, it might be time to move the page. The discussion is at Talk:Intercounty Connector#It's official, MD 200 is now signed.-Jeff (talk) 17:12, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] So I got bored and wrote a script...

I wrote a Python script to make a sortable table for the list of Maryland state highways, similar to what is present on List of Oklahoma numbered highways. You can see the results User:Algorerhythms/MD Route Table. The script isn't perfect, so some information is missing from the table (especially for minor routes). I'm not sure if this will be of any use, though. - Algorerhythms (talk) 04:42, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Looks good. Even after I used a BeanShell script to generate WP:MDRD/L, I didn't think of using one to create a table like that. Maybe after more of it gets filled in, we can use it to replace List of Maryland state highways, which will give it a good shot at becoming an FL.-Jeff (talk) 15:51, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
I noticed a mistake in the table... the script placed the termini in the table backwards (i.e. the western/southern terminus in the column for eastern/northern terminus, and vice versa), while I've been filling them in in the correct order. I think what I'm going to do with it if I get the time is modify the script to use the table itself as input data, and use the script to straighten the columns out. This would also help in adding or subtracting columns later on, as data would not need to be reinput. - Algorerhythms (talk) 00:19, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
The columns are now shown in the right order, and most of the data is filled in, though a few lengths are still missing. - Algorerhythms (talk) 04:08, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

The table turns out to be rather large - about 160kB. Also, it might be useful to split the table into multiple parts. This should make it easier to maintain, though it does lose the advantage of being able to sort through all of the routes at once. I put a split version (in sections of 100) at User:Algorerhythms/MD Route Table split. - Algorerhythms (talk) 00:34, 10 May 2008 (UTC) The remaining data is now filled in, so if there are no objections, I'll put it (the non-split version) on the List of Maryland state highways page. - Algorerhythms (talk) 22:15, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] north Dakota and Minnesota

Those two places is still place when state-name shields on interstate is still common. Though interstate-guide shade them black interstate-wise is still using both types of shields. They I think they can have same thing we have using specific state name only in article body;avoid it from infobox.--Freewayguy (talk) 20:03, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

What do North Dakota and Minnesota have to do with Maryland? - Algorerhythms (talk) 21:14, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Sounds good to me, but I suggest you take it up with those projects or USRD if either of them doesn't have a project.-Jeff (talk) 01:32, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image:I-68 (MD).svg

I was the one who put instant pink tag on the MD state-name interstate shield and I agree about undeleting it. Go to Commons and ask for undeeltion to get that image back, thats my fault, sorry.--Freewayguy (talk) 00:11, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New shields

I've been planning to do these for a while, and they're finally done:

I even made a B-W Parkway sign:

Even though the B-W Parkway sign isn't an actual shield, I felt we could use it in place of one for the federal portion (which isn't signed as MD 295).

I still plan on doing the ones for the Key Bridge and Capital Beltway. The problem is that unlike the ones I just did, those aren't simple so they may be copyrighted. If anyone knows what their copyright status is, that'd be great. Even if they are copyrighted, we could still use a PNG version with limited use.-Jeff (talk) 03:09, 8 May 2008 (UTC)