Please ignore this mailing. I will resend with a proper subject.
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Elliott Plack <elliott.pl...@gmail.com>wrote: > Greetings Import Community, > > After SOTMUS, I have decided to resurrect the import of Maryland Dept. of > Natural Resources land boundary data. This import will take public domain > Maryland polygon data that represents the official boundaries of state > parks and protected areas and will bring them into OSM using a variety of > tags. I have documented this in the link below, complete with tables, > diagrams, examples, and a link to the data on GitHub. > > *Brief Summary*: Maryland has made this data public domain. The plan is > to import this data in *manual mode* only. Local editors will examine the > data on an individual basis and then upload it when it meets tagging > standards. The tagging will be fairly comprehensive. We'll either use > leisure=park or leisure=nature_reserve depending on the data dictionary > on the wiki. We'll also use the boundary=protected scheme and I have > written a key for each state land type and corresponding protect_classtype. > > *Benefits:* This data in OSM will be fantastic for basemaps, as parks and > natural protected land boundaries are often hard to discern based solely on > imagery. Local surveys are impractical given the immense size of some of > these areas. Coupled with trails surveyed by other local mappers, or using > the new Strava slide tool, the OSM map can often outperform the official > state maps in terms of accuracy and informational content. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maryland_State_Parks > > > https://github.com/talllguy/maryland-dnr-osm-import/tree/master/dataWGS84/DNR%20Lands%20and%20Conservation%20Easements > > Looking forward to any comments. > > Thanks, > > -- > Elliott Plack > http://about.me/elliottp > > _______________________________________________ > Imports-us mailing list > imports...@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us > > -- Elliott Plack http://about.me/elliottp
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