More than You Wanted to Know About Roads

I compiled the ODOT road inventory stuff into some HTML files and slapped that together with google maps, so now you can sort through the lists by road type, click on a link, and zoom, you're "there". It works in Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. It's actually kind of a pain to get this stuff to work with every type of browser, so it doesn't. This is pretty hacked together, so if you use it, don't be surprised if it doesn't work!

Also, some of the information that ODOT has is pretty out of date. For example, Butternut Road in Geauga County has been paved for about 5 years, but is still listed with a gravel section.

ODOT has several classes of surface types. I eventually figured out what they mean in layman's terms.

So if you search for "Dirt" roads in Geauga, you'll get a list of roads with any dirt sections. Heath Road, for example, pops up in the list.

When you click on "Heath Rd" it will show the list of segments that are included in the ODOT road inventory.

In this case, the segments listed run from south to north. Heath starts at Sperry Road and runs north until terminates in a right of way--which means there is no road there, although in this case, you can kind of see the trace of the right of way on the satellite image. The road starts up again as pavement until County Road 8--Wilson Mills, then it's gravel all the way to Lake County.

Often you'll see "undefined" fields. That means there was no information in that field on the ODOT inventory page. For example, I couldn't find the municipality codes for Cuyahoga county, so those are all "undefined".

Here's the Link.