Absolutely planning to add it. OSM’s surface data is very partial in the States – great in Nebraska, not so good over the border in Kansas. This will mean supplementing it with additional data so it’s not a simple job, and unfortunately data is harder to find for some states than others. But it’s very much on the radar.

Excellent, I've been (very slowly) updating the data in MN.

Hi Richard, I saw in your newsletter that you are adding gravel routing for some states in the US.  If you hadn't noticed, the rural road surface data in Minnesota are nearly complete.  67 of the 77 counties have largely been completed and I'm slowly chipping away at the remaining counties.  Thanks for your work on this site.

Gravel riding in Texas is now a 'thing' (not me - I'm happy with the hard tarmac) so those who route copiously on gravel could-should add to the data bank. Is it on OSM I should suggest they augment? Advice needed.

Hi Ken,

I revived an old thread (bad on me) after I read Richard's newsletter announcing that he was going to add gravel routing for some states, including Texas.  I think he is using a non OSM dataset for that, but your friends should be able to do that.

Uh oh, I just noticed that Richard had added gravel routing in Minnesota.  I should have checked before I asked (I hadn't been planning too many routes given the weather). 

Thanks so much!

Gravel routing is live over the whole US but some states will be better than others. Texas and Minnesota are both good: the OSM raw data is decent (if not perfect) in each and I’ve been able to supplement it with additional data. Some states are less ideal. At one end of the scale you have Indiana, which has thousands of paved roads which aren’t discernible as paved in OSM. At the other end is New Mexico, where much of what’s in OSM isn’t legally or possibly rideable!