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aniceburrito.bsky.social
Just now learning that there was a schism on Wikipedia regarding articles about roads because editors kept taking some down for not being noteworthy, so roadheads picked up stakes and made their own wiki just for roads: www.aaroads.com
AARoads - Covering Roads and Highways Coast to Coast
AARoads (All ABout Roads) - Photo guides covering roads and highways for the traveler, cartographer, commuter and road enthusiast.
www.aaroads.com
March 13, 2024 at 7:31 PM
kiwiincolorado.bsky.social
#Rogue #Editors Started A Competing #Wikipedia That’s Only About #Roads
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #gischat #mapping #cartography #mapnerds #USA #highways #transportation #alternate #editing #schism #AARoads #geography #crowdsourcing #volunteers #opendata #collaboration
@aaroads
March 4, 2024 at 9:56 PM
fernkhahn.com
of course, the folks on the aaroads forum have beat me to it

www.aaroads.com/forum/index....
Washington - Page 42
Washington - Page 42
www.aaroads.com
December 21, 2024 at 7:07 PM
kefkafloyd.bsky.social
Roadgeeks! Check out AARoads and its forum. www.aaroads.com/forum/index....
October 23, 2024 at 2:09 PM
showmeasign.online
Not unique to AAroads!
November 4, 2025 at 8:07 AM
techmeme.com
A look at AARoads, a dedicated US roads and highways wiki site started by a group of Wikipedia editors, after years of frustration over Wikipedia's rules (Thomas Germain/Gizmodo)

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March 3, 2024 at 2:30 AM
yomoyomo.bsky.social
ウィキペディアの幹線道路ページの編集者が「出口ランプ」を目指した理由
yamdas.hatenablog.com/entry/202403...
ウィキペディアの幹線道路ページの編集者が「出口ランプ」を目指した理由 - YAMDAS現更新履歴
slate.comウィキペディアで幹線道路（ハイウェイですね）についてページ情報をコツコツ貢献してきたウィキペディア編集者が、一部編集者に攻撃されて敵意に直面し（たと感じ）、ウィキペディアのハイウェイ愛好家たちがウィキペディアを離脱して、AARoads というサイト、並びに AARoads Wiki という Wiki を立ち上げるにいたったという話である。「この一見愉快なオタク同士の衝突の背後には...
yamdas.hatenablog.com
March 17, 2024 at 10:48 PM
hvillealrailfan.bsky.social
Look at this fucking Sephiroth. And no, this isn't all of it either.

(And all because Maryland's replacing a certain collapsed bridge with a new bridge rather than building a tunnel like this guy wants, and he's upset that no-one else on AARoads supports his one-man campaign...)
AARoads Forum Shenanigans When I Post About This AARoads is a long-running online forum dedicated to road enthusiasts, infrastructure analysts, and transportation hobbyists. Members discuss highway design, signage, construction projects, historical routes, and policy decisions across North America. The forum blends technical insight with regional passion, often attracting engineers, planners, and map collectors alongside casual roadgeeks. While many threads focus on factual updates and photography, others dive into speculative planning, legacy infrastructure, and symbolic geography. Like any niche forum, it has its own rhythms, personalities, and unwritten norms -- sometimes favoring consensus and spectacle over disruption or critique. It’s a valuable terrain for documenting infrastructure discourse. This capsule documents how principled infrastructure critique has been received on AARoads over the past six months. It’s not a grievance, it’s a forensic annotation of rhetorical patterns in public forums. No private messages are quoted, no individuals named, and no forum rules violated. When principled critique provokes discomfort, it often signals that symbolic geography has been disturbed. This isn’t personal. It’s structural. Over the past six months, I’ve posted repeatedly on AARoads forum about the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, phased rollout logic, and the symbolic implications of clearance decisions. Each time, the pattern repeats: pushback not on the infrastructure facts, but on my tone, framing, and presence. Replies sidestep the forensic critique and instead target my allegedly “AI-sounding posts,” accuse me of “arguing against myself,” or suggest I’m causing “chaos” simply by participating. Things like "hijacking the thread," "repeating yourself," "ignoring rebuttals," and so on. About 5 posters flood the discussion with nonsense posts, juvenile distractions, and derailment tactics... (Text continues, but I can't be assed to put the rest here.)
November 4, 2025 at 8:31 AM
barneystringer.bsky.social
Can I introduce you to SABRE. (Looks like AARoads may be the US equivalent?)

www.sabre-roads.org.uk
SABRE: The Society for All British and Irish Road Enthusiasts
www.sabre-roads.org.uk
October 23, 2024 at 2:03 PM
hvillealrailfan.bsky.social
Stolen from the AARoads forum, apparently this is an *actual* plan for a replacement sign to be put-up by NDDOT:
An image showing the plans for an exit sign to be made by the state of North Dakota. The plans show all kinds of errors like badly kerned and improperly-sized text, and oversized US Route 83 shield, and an undersized North Dakota State Route 1804 shield.
January 31, 2025 at 12:45 AM
killerswan.bsky.social
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT82wrv9m/
Ben on TikTok
And lo they said, “let the #tea be spilt,” and thus it was spilt #academia #wikipedia #roadtok #roadinfrastructure #roads #aaroads #credibility
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September 11, 2023 at 3:41 AM
mutevox.bsky.social
"ウィキペディア執筆で重要な信頼できる情報源の解釈が、道路ページの編集で問題となった。ウィキペディアの道路オタク編集者が運輸局のページを情報源として使用しようとすると、これは一次資料（一次情報源）だからと他の編集者に拒否されてしまう傾向にあり、軋轢が生じた" https://yamdas.hatenablog.com/entry/20240318/wikipedia-for-roads
ウィキペディアの幹線道路ページの編集者が「出口ランプ」を目指した理由 - YAMDAS現更新履歴
slate.comウィキペディアで幹線道路（ハイウェイですね）についてページ情報をコツコツ貢献してきたウィキペディア編集者が、一部編集者に攻撃されて敵意に直面し（たと感じ）、ウィキペディアのハイウェイ愛好家たちがウィキペディアを離脱して、AARoads というサイト、並びに AARoads Wiki という Wiki を立ち上げるにいたったという話である。「この一見愉快なオタク同士の衝突の背後には、20年にわたるウィキペディアの基本理念や価値観を、現状における需要といかに調和させるかというはるかに差し迫った問題がある」とこの記事は分析している。そしてこの記事では、ウィキペディア編集者でも鉄道オ…
yamdas.hatenablog.com
March 18, 2024 at 1:29 AM
mediagazer.com
A look at AARoads, a dedicated US roads and highways wiki site started by a group of Wikipedia editors, after years of frustration over Wikipedia's rules (Thomas Germain/Gizmodo)

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March 3, 2024 at 7:01 AM
eddiebear.bsky.social
cc @AARoads

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January 30, 2025 at 5:18 AM
hvillealrailfan.bsky.social
That being said, I am aware of another roadgeek on AARoads who did attended HarmonyCon both last year and this year (and brought a shield with them this year to gather signatures on apparently, inspired by my I-565 shield)...
August 15, 2025 at 4:26 AM
hvillealrailfan.bsky.social
Who the fuck sued (or threatened to sue) AAroads?
September 29, 2023 at 12:49 AM
vidthekid.info
What happened to AARoads Forum? Everything is gone?
March 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
akwyz.com
A look at AARoads, a dedicated US roads and highways wiki site started by a group of Wikipedia editors, after years of frustration over Wikipedia's rules (Thomas Germain/Gizmodo)
Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: A look at AARoads, a dedicated US roads and highways wiki site started by a group of Wikipedia editors, after years of frustration over Wikipedia's rules  —  A group of Wikipedia editors wrote 15,000 articles on US roads and…
dlvr.it
March 3, 2024 at 11:08 AM
atl4l5.bsky.social
Resurrect the Distributor Freeway plan. Connect to Veterans/Musial bridge for a seamless loop around the back of downtown.
www.aaroads.com/guides/mo-755/
North South Distributor Freeway - Missouri 755 - AARoads - Missouri
Missouri 755 was the designation given to the planned North South Distirbutor Freeway in St. Louis, Missouri.
www.aaroads.com
December 3, 2024 at 6:24 AM
40yearsago.bsky.social
[April 24th, 1986] A significant portion of Ontario Highway 52 was officially transferred from provincial control to the Regional Municipality of Hamilton-Wentworth
Ontario Highway 52 - AARoads Wiki
wiki.aaroads.com
April 24, 2026 at 4:06 PM