National Scenic Byways

This repository contains data obtained from the byways.org website, which operated from 1998 to 2013 under the direction of the U.S. Federal Highway Administration. In late 2013 a subset of the data was moved to internal hosting and is viewable at https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/byways.

The owner of this repository has access to the original PostgreSQL database, associated file assets, and website source code. The goal is to make the public travel-related structured data available to the public, as it was produced with public funding.

Disclaimer

This information was last updated in September 2013, and no guarantee is made to its continual accuracy. Road conditions, services available, and tourism contacts are especially subject to change. Use and distribute at your own risk.

Loading Data

PostgreSQL

The PostgreSQL database dump requires the PostGIS extension. Use the pg_restore command to load it into an empty database:

createdb byways
pg_restore -d byways < byways.pgdump

The dump file was created from PostgreSQL 11.1 with PostGIS 2.5.1.