Rural road surfaces in Minnesota

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Project to add surfaces to rural roads in Minnesota

As of October 2024, many of the rural roads of Minnesota do not have surfaces tags, this despite the fact that many are unpaved. This is important missing information for many road users. This page will detail work to address this problem.

Status of Minnesota County rural roads
County Name Complete Maproullete Challenge
Aitkin Yes
Anoka Yes
Becker Yes
Beltrami
Benton Yes
Big Stone
Blue Earth https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/49412
Brown
Carlton
Carver Yes
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago Yes
Clay Yes
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood Yes
Crow Wing
Dakota Yes
Dodge Yes
Douglas
Faribault Yes
Fillmore Yes
Freeborn Yes
Goodhue Yes
Grant
Hennepin Yes
Houston Yes
Hubbard
Isanti Yes
Itasca
Jackson Yes
Kanabec
Kandiyohi Yes
Kittson Yes
Koochiching
Lac qui Parle
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Le Sueur Yes
Lincoln
Lyon
McLeod Yes
Mahnomen
Marshall
Martin Yes
Meeker Yes
Mille Lacs Yes
Morrison
Mower
Murray Yes
Nicollet Yes
Nobles Yes
Norman
Olmsted Nearly
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Pipestone Yes
Polk
Pope
Ramsey Yes
Red Lake
Redwood
Renville
Rice Yes
Rock Yes
Roseau
Saint Louis
Scott Yes
Sherburne Yes
Sibley Yes
Stearns Yes
Steele Yes
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha Yes
Wadena
Waseca Yes
Washington Yes
Watonwan Yes
Wilkin Yes
Winona Yes
Wright Yes
Yellow Medicine

Recommended process for JOSM users

  • Extract all the `residential`,`tertiary`, and `unclassified` highways in a county that have no surface tags with the following overpass turbo query where you substitute the target county in for "Winona"
[out:xml]/*fixed by auto repair*/[timeout:25];
 Template:GeocodeArea:Winona County, Minnesota->.searchArea;
 rel(area.searchArea)[admin_level=8];
 map_to_area -> .all_level_8_areas;
 (
    way["highway"="residential"][!surface](area.searchArea);      
    way["highway"="unclassified"][!surface](area.searchArea);
    way["highway"="tertiary"][!surface](area.searchArea);
 )->.a;
 way.a(area.all_level_8_areas)->.b;
 ( .a;- .b;);
 (._;>;); out meta;
  • Run the query by clicking the "Run" button
  • Export the results to JOSM by clicking on the "Export" button in Overpass Turbo (remember to have JOSM running)
  • In your JOSM window you will have all the ways loaded. You can start editing here, OR your can:
  • Install the "todo" plugin
  • Select all your ways
  • Add them to the "todo" list
  • Sequentially fix all the ways in the county. Don't worry if you don't finish the whole thing. If you need to quit, you can just restart the whole process again!