{"id":6090,"date":"2015-05-05T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6090"},"modified":"2015-05-03T12:53:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T17:53:55","slug":"2015-iowa-highway-map-released-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/05\/2015-iowa-highway-map-released-online\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Iowa highway map released online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two months later than expected, the official state transportation map is available through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowadot.gov\/maps\/msp\/pdf\/transmap.html\">iowadotmaps.com<\/a>. Changes are minimal, but Tama County had a few of them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Iowa Juvenile Home is no longer marked.<\/li>\n<li>The Tama-Toledo &#8220;urban area&#8221; is no longer extant (no yellow area).<\/li>\n<li>T69 north of D65 is marked as paved, although it&#8217;s hard to tell because the lettering itself takes up most of the line. So is A26 in Allamakee County.<\/li>\n<li>IA 152, IA 370, and old US 34 to Plattsmouth are now county roads.<\/li>\n<li>IA 92 is rerouted around Muscatine both on the main map and inset.<\/li>\n<li>N64 to Athelstan in Taylor County, long marked as paved and marked as bituminous in a 1997 county map, is gravel. The road itself been gravel since at least fall 2009, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@40.675859,-94.547032,3a,75y,193.76h,83.31t\/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sVCLbqLzCPvXnTlgZ80EB5g!2e0\">as seen on Google Street View<\/a>. It&#8217;s very possible this was a reversion in the 2000s, after the community disincorporated.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of disincorporation, Millville&#8217;s new status is so reflected.<\/li>\n<li>One piece of the past hanging around: Old IA 60 at the Minnesota state line still appears as a black line, although the road literally was\u00a0obliterated after completion of the four-lane.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The state will be switching to an every-two-years pattern on paper maps. <a href=\"Read more at http:\/\/www.kcrg.com\/news\/local\/State-to-Print-Road-Maps-Every-Other-Year-in-2016--183427521.html\">This KCRG story<\/a> leads me to think that 2015 is the first two-year printed map. (That may also explain the delay.)\u00a0Printing maps in odd-numbered years would best sync with changes in the governor&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months later than expected, the official state transportation map is available through iowadotmaps.com. Changes are minimal, but Tama County had a few of them. The Iowa Juvenile Home is no longer marked. The Tama-Toledo &#8220;urban area&#8221; is no longer &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/05\/2015-iowa-highway-map-released-online\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6091,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090\/revisions\/6091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}