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The Roadgeek

I am one of a few individuals called roadgeeks. We do stuff like pull off the road to take pictures of signs, notice (and complain) when a U.S. shield is posted instead of a state highway shield, and have our state DOT in our e-mail address book. We browse M.T.R. and hope for new interstates in our area. We track where we've been, and have huge collections of maps. We could recognize the Secretary of Transportation on sight and know that even-numbered Interstates run east-west.

And the best part is, we never get lost.

Features

• Picture gallery!
  A gallery of road photographs! Mostly Oklahoma and southwest Missouri but some pics from other states.
• Interchange 106
  In the summer of 2005, ODOT rebuilt the I-35/OK-9 West interchange in northern Goldsby, OK. A picture gallery of the changes made by the construction.
• Going Loopy
  Some of the highlights of Kansas City's beltway, Interstate 435.
• Southwestern Oklahoma Roadtrip
  The Wichita and Quartz Mountains, the western parts of OK-19 and OK-9, and a little bit of the Texas Panhandle.
• Oklahoma sign errors
  A list of gaffes made by the various transportation agencies in Oklahoma. Maybe ODOT and friends will read this and fix them?

Articles

• The Roadgeek Primer
  This covers the three classes of highways in America, and the numbering rules for them. Read this first if you're a curious bystander.
• A Look Back at Button Copy
  For those few who still don't know what it is.
• Oklahoma's Counties and the Towns With the Same Name
  You would think that atown with the same name as a county would actually be in that county. Not always so in Oklahoma.
• Variants of the Meat-Cleaver Shield
  The subtle variations in Oklahoma's state highway shield.

Downloads

• Inkscape/GIMP palette. This was created for the USRD project at Wikipedia. This palette includes the USRD standard map legend colors, as well as the six MUTCD colors. It might be useful for non-USRD roadgeeks using Inkscape to create shields, maps, and other signage. To install on Windows, place it in C:\Program Files\Inkscape\share\palettes\; for Ubuntu Linux, this is /usr/share/gimp/2.0/palettes.

My clinched stuff

Every roadgeek's gotta brag about the highways he's finished off. Here's my section to do just that.

• Clinched Interstate highway map (m-plex.com)
• Clinched highway list
• Clinched counties

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