Hi everyone! You'll notice on the glossary that certain green words are popping up. Those green words are other terms found in the glossary, and the green color indicates a link to another part of the glossary. Everyone knows that the glossary is used to find the definition of a term you don't understand. But if a definition includes yet another term you don't understand, that definition isn't going to be useful to you at all! Therefore, I have put links in definitions to other definitions. So you can learn many different road-related technical terms at the same time!
More importantly, though, green links to glossary terms are also appearing on other pages showing route info and photographs. I'm starting to do this on the Illinois pages for now, but these green links will start appearing on the national, Indiana, and Iowa content later on. The plan is to provide instant access to clarification on any jargon that isn't immediately understandable. I always want to lower and eliminate any boundaries to other people joining the roadgeek community and the hobby of routesnapping! Gatekeeping be damned! On another note, I added some photos to the Illinois Route 23 page and to the pages of routes coming in contact with it. I did an impromptu drive on US Route 52 and Illinois Route 23 yesterday while my house was too hot (my A/C is broken until a few days from now). There's also a new photo on the Illinois Route 71 page- and a shield image I got for Illinois 71 turned out to be so nice, I changed the shield image on the Illinois menu page. Welcome to everyone who is new to the site! Be sure to follow the Instagram page at www.instagram.com/paul.across.america !
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Hi everyone!
The site has expanded its coverage to Iowa! The third state featured on the site is Iowa, which is probably no surprise to anyone who has seen the Trip Blog. Since I finished Routesnapping Iowa, which is to get a photo of a route marker for every route in the state (above county level), I could provide photos for every route in the state. So every route in Iowa can have photos and information now! Last night, I released all the Iowa pages for public viewing, and the Midwest page was reworked to show options for BOTH Indiana and Iowa! I have also been working on updating pages, so the jargon on each page will have a link to the glossary. I want this website to be the most accessible to those just learning about roadway design or Roadgeek hobbies. We want to welcome people into the Roadgeek community, not scare them away by making ourselves sound like know-it-alls! I want everything on this website to be easy to understand--if there's anything you have a hard time understanding, please let me know so I can rewrite it. I want to lower the barriers to entry as much as possible, so any obscure words should be explained to those who need it. That's why jargon on the site will link to a definition in the glossary, so you can figure out what the hell I'm talking about. That's going to require sifting through every page created so far on the site, so this is going to take a long time. For now, check out the debut of the Iowa page, with every state route in Iowa! The Roadgeek Glossary now has a clickable A-Z index at the top of the page. Check it out!
I have also finished creating all of the pages for the new state, whose content will be released sometime in the next few days. Expect to see the new state's name to appear under the "Midwest" heading at the top of the page. When this is done, I might start working on content for ANOTHER Midwestern state, whose photo collection I hope to complete later this summer... You may have noticed that the "Midwest" category of pages currently only has one state in it: Indiana. Well, a whole new Midwestern state is having content developed right now! I plan on getting a photograph of a route marker on every highway in a certain six Midwestern states-- and I may add more states in the future! You know that out of those six states, Illinois and Indiana are two of them; content for those two states is fully fleshed-out and ready to view. Well, I have completed a third state's worth of route markers, and that third state's worth of content is coming soon! After that, I plan to develop content for the other three Midwestern states whose route markers I'm still collecting, but not until after I add more functionality to the glossary and add bonus photos to existing pages. Why have just two photos for most pages on the Indiana and national pages when I have more just lying around, ready to share?
I'm not revealing anything in particular (though the travel blog might make the new state's identity obvious), but know that I'm working on content for a whole new state! Once that's done, I'm going to enhance the glossary, provide links to the glossary in the places you find glossary terms, and add bonus photo galleries to the Indiana and national pages. Then, if all goes well, I'll have a FOURTH Midwestern state fully Routesnapped for ANOTHER whole new state's worth of content! Stay tuned for the drop dates for all the new content! I hope you are enjoying the site so far. If you have fixes or suggestions you'd like to request, send those to paul@paulacrossamerica.com . |
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