Recently, many transportation agencies worldwide have begun to acquire mobile lidar data to map their roadway assets.
If they did, odes would be written to the stretch of 191 between Chinle and Ganado, one snippet of an elegant historic roadway engineered so that on maps it resembles a zipper fastening the Western states to the rest of the land.
The roadway was removed from state maps after 1991 but remains under state maintenance as an unsigned trunkline listed as either M-155 or OLD M-155.
The current highway was numbered Secondary State Highway 2E (SSH 2E) since at least 1939, though maps show a roadway following roughly the same alignment in existence since at least 1897.
The company also offers power line construction and inspection, meter reading, GPS mapping, utility pole maintenance, roadway lighting and traffic signal construction and maintenance.
The roadway first appeared as Canyon Creek Road in a 1911 map and was designated Secondary State Highway 8B (SSH 8B) in 1937.
In recent years many data mining and visualization methods are developed that analyze and map spatial data at multiple scales for roadway inventory management purposes (Ashouri Rad and Rahmandad 2013).
The department assigned the roadway its designation and included it on the 1995 map.
A 1900 map of the Tacoma area showed a roadway extending north from Spanaway to Tacoma that would later become SR 7.
Fragments of personal e-mails, photographs and other unencrypted digital data were collected by Google's fleet of Street View automobiles as they compiled panoramic maps covering about five million miles, or eight million kilometers, of roadway in 49 countries.
