Hi all, I was looking at the Golden Spike National Historic Site[1], of particular interest because the Union Pacific railroad celebrates its 150th birthday this year[2]. While elements are represented in OSM[3], a search for 'Golden Spike' yields nada. I was about to draw a boundary=national_park[3] around it with a name tag, so it would be a little easier to find. But it turns out the NPS has a boundary shapefile for all National Parks, Historic Sites, Rivers, Parkways, Lakeshores and more than a dozen other categories[4].
Is this something to consider for importing? Has this already been considered in the past? As you know, I am very skeptical towards data imports and will only propose or consider them for useful features that are very hard or impossible to survey. I believe this is a candidate. I understand if everybody is busy remapping, but I just wanted to throw it out there. Best Martijn [1] http://www.nps.gov/gosp/planyourvisit/directions.htm [2] Check out the neat timeline: http://up150.com/timeline/ [3] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dnational_park - may not be appropriate, but there does not seem to be a tag for historic sites as such (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Historic) [4] https://irma.nps.gov/App/Reference/Profile/2185767 -- martijn van exel http://oegeo.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
