[Talk-us] Update for Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is planning to update its core base data. We have identified many inconsistencies in online location-based data which often results in hazardous navigation scenarios for park visitors (e.g. travel on a closed trail, wrong way on road, etc.) and plan to slowly migrate our latest data collection to the public domain. In addition, we are including many new Points of Interest and other man-made features not presently included in the park OSM footprint. Initial planning and announcement to the OSM community is here http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Great_Smoky_Mountains_National_Park ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Update for Great Smoky Mountains National Park
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Thomas Colson thomas_col...@nps.gov wrote: Great Smoky Mountains National Park is planning to update its core base data. We have identified many inconsistencies in online location-based data which often results in hazardous navigation scenarios for park visitors (e.g. travel on a closed trail, wrong way on road, etc…) and plan to slowly migrate our latest data collection to the public domain. In addition, we are including many new Points of Interest and other man-made features not presently included in the park OSM footprint. I think that this is an awesome project. It's been a while since I've been to the park, but I've been daydreaming about a visit to the park this summer in conjunction with a Linux user conference. Probably won't happen due to time budget constraints but I'm glad to see these sort of improvements to the map. One question about what I saw on the wiki page. I can understand not wanting the public to drive on administrative roads, but are those roads closed to hikers as well as vehicular traffic? I can understand keeping hikers off of the roads under normal circumstances but if I was out hiking a trail that crossed an administrative road I'd be pretty confused if the map on my GPS didn't show it. I'd find them useful as navigational references if nothing else. I would think that it'd be useful in emergency situations as well. For example if a group of hikers was trying to evacuate an injured/sick person an administrative road could be a quicker way to get to more advanced medical care. Or for volunteers conducting a search for lost hikers. -- Jeff Ollie ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Update for Great Smoky Mountains National Park
A Linux conference in east TN?!! I am going create a FAQ section in the Project WIKI for all listserv comments on this project, in keeping with Public Domain/FOIA status. -Original Message- From: Jeffrey Ollie [mailto:j...@ocjtech.us] Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 11:59 AM To: Thomas Colson Cc: talk-us Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Update for Great Smoky Mountains National Park On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Thomas Colson thomas_col...@nps.gov wrote: Great Smoky Mountains National Park is planning to update its core base data. We have identified many inconsistencies in online location-based data which often results in hazardous navigation scenarios for park visitors (e.g. travel on a closed trail, wrong way on road, etc…) and plan to slowly migrate our latest data collection to the public domain. In addition, we are including many new Points of Interest and other man-made features not presently included in the park OSM footprint. I think that this is an awesome project. It's been a while since I've been to the park, but I've been daydreaming about a visit to the park this summer in conjunction with a Linux user conference. Probably won't happen due to time budget constraints but I'm glad to see these sort of improvements to the map. One question about what I saw on the wiki page. I can understand not wanting the public to drive on administrative roads, but are those roads closed to hikers as well as vehicular traffic? I can understand keeping hikers off of the roads under normal circumstances but if I was out hiking a trail that crossed an administrative road I'd be pretty confused if the map on my GPS didn't show it. I'd find them useful as navigational references if nothing else. I would think that it'd be useful in emergency situations as well. For example if a group of hikers was trying to evacuate an injured/sick person an administrative road could be a quicker way to get to more advanced medical care. Or for volunteers conducting a search for lost hikers. -- Jeff Ollie ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Update for Great Smoky Mountains National Park
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: One question about what I saw on the wiki page. I can understand not wanting the public to drive on administrative roads, but are those roads closed to hikers as well as vehicular traffic? I can understand keeping hikers off of the roads under normal circumstances but if I was out hiking a trail that crossed an administrative road I'd be pretty confused if the map on my GPS didn't show it. I'd find them useful as navigational references if nothing else. I would think that it'd be useful in emergency situations as well. For example if a group of hikers was trying to evacuate an injured/sick person an administrative road could be a quicker way to get to more advanced medical care. Or for volunteers conducting a search for lost hikers. I agree. These service road should included. They can be tagged highway=service, access=official or access=no -- Clifford OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Update for Great Smoky Mountains National Park
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Thomas Colson thomas_col...@nps.gov wrote: A Linux conference in east TN?!! Nah, in Charleston, SC actually, but since I'd probably be driving from Iowa the park wouldn't be far out of the way. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flock If I do it, I'd like to make it a two-week trip, with one week for the conference and one week for sightseeing on my own. -- Jeff Ollie ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
