Scott Nazelrod
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 new gallery of road photographs! Mostly Oklahoma and southwest Missouri but some few 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.
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.
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 highways
Every roadgeek's gotta brag about the highways he's finished off. Here's my section to do just that.
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