I took a trip to Dubuque, Iowa the weekend of Feb 28 to March 1, and have just done quite a bit of editing during that trip. I didn’t just travel to and from Dubuque, but also along some of eastern Iowa’s expressways, including U.S. 151 from U.S. 61 to IA 13, then north on IA 13 to U.S. 20, then on U.S 20 all the way to I-39/U.S. 51.

I’ve got the addition of info for that round pretty much completed, minus some of the maxspeed tags on U.S. 61/U.S. 151 in Dubuque. All the sections marked as trunk except for a small part of U.S. 20 between East Dubuque and Galena are also expressways, so I added the expressway=yes to these parts. In the section I mentioned I used expressway=no for the first time since there are driveways straight to peoples’ garages in that section, which is on the eastbound part only.

I have more to do regarding Dubuque itself. One of the places I used to hang out at when I lived there, Monk’s remains unmapped. I don’t know why I didn’t change this back in 2013, but I have the means to change it now, and I’ll do it later. Also there’s a lot of cycleways and footways in the new Bee Branch Creek area that are currently unmapped. I have the GPS traces to do most of the mapping, but it’s really better handled by someone who currently lives in Dubuque. Nevertheless I plan on doing it if no one else has already.

One thing I’ve also been concentrating on is minspeed tags. Both Iowa and Illinois have minimum speed limits on all Interstates and most non-Interstate freeways, mostly for keeping farm equipment off of them; the freeway sections of U.S. 20 in both Iowa and Illinois are examples of the latter. Minspeed tags don’t get the attention that maxspeed tags do, so I’m doing my part to change that.

And I haven’t forgotten the other mapping I’ve yet to do from my previous entry.