@Kevin: I agree. The USGS is no longer doing the on-the-ground surveying needed to keep its classic topographical maps up to date, and the more time that passes, the more outdated those maps will become. Which leaves crowd-sourcing and, of course, commercial map makers to pick up the slack. OSM's goal is as ambitious as Wikipdia's, with fewer contributors. But even so, OSM is probably already the most comprehensive online resource for hiking trails.
Regarding importing self-produced raster maps, I did this video tutorial on importing into OsmAnd using a commercial Windows program called MAPC2MAPC: https://youtu.be/Y_fekLfcUOc How are you importing into Backcountry Navigator? And--I'm interested in how you imported park boundaries into OSM. I could never figure that out. Thanks! On Thursday, July 6, 2017 at 9:34:33 AM UTC-7, Kevin Kenny wrote: > > On Jul 6, 2017 11:20 AM, "Bart Eisenberg" <bartei...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > I would just add to this discussion that I'm glad to see the interest here > in adding trails to OSM and using OsmAnd to navigate them. Around my area > north of San Francisco, OSM is the most complete online source of hiking > trails, with the potential to become that for other areas of the world. > > > This. > > I've mapped a few hundred miles of trail personally, and imported the > boundaries of hundreds of parks and preserves, because OSM is the only > platform that I can see being capable of growing into a comprehensive trail > resource. > > Where I hike, the 'authoritative' official trail maps are full of errors. > The US once had topographic maps that were the envy of the globe, but that > project was abandoned during the Bush (41) administration, and the maps > have become quite stale. If we are to have trail maps, citizen-mappers will > have to produce them. > > I admit that I've never tried OSMand in the backcountry. I use it when > driving to the trailhead, but switch to Backcountry Navigator on trail. > This is mostly because it's familiar, but also because it lets me use > self-produced raster tiles. I produce my own tile maps, incorporating > non-OSM data sources. > > Anyway, for all that I complain, this community is wonderful. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Osmand" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to osmand+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
