MAP Roads Act

The Modernizing Access to Public Roads Act (MAP Roads Act) would require the Secretary of Transportation to create a pilot grant program that provides funding to States to digitize county roads and build centralized, publicly accessible road data repositories. The goal is to improve rural commerce, public safety, and public navigation by turning paper maps and legacy records into standardized geospatial data that can be shared across state and federal mapping systems. States would apply for grants, with priority given to those showing significant gaps in digitized county road data, the ability to subgrant to counties, and a plan to coordinate with counties on common geospatial data standards. Funds would support county digitization efforts and the state repository, and participating States would report on progress for several years. The program would run through 2031 (with annual funding of up to $20 million per year) and then sunset unless reauthorized.