[Talk-us] National Atlas

Hi, I see the National Atlas has a shapefile download for Federal lands. I'm interested in getting the National forests in Arizona into OSM, but the data sets I've found so far are crude. This one has good detail IIRC. I can't find licensing information for this government site. Is all US

Re: [Talk-us] National Atlas

Most US Government-sourced data is essentially public domain (actually a slight variant sometimes called government domain). All boundary data you find on National Atlas and The National Map (as well as seamless.usgs.gov) are completely free for just about any use except terrorism. ;) All the

[Talk-us] Strange synthentic GPS tracks spelling out words

We had a super-cool mapping party in Portland, OR this weekend. But I noticed some really werid GPS traces. Somebody has spelled out things like ATM and SUSHILAND in the GPS tracks, and they weren't walking around spelling things. ;) Take a look around 45.524613, -122.694281. I'm just curious

Re: [Talk-us] National Atlas

I know that for the National Park boundaries the national atlas data is much worse than park specific data. I would suspect that to be the case for national forest boundaries as well on the National Atlas. As Eric said, most government data is alright to use. I found the Forest service site for

Re: [Talk-us] National Atlas

Thanks Tyler and Eric! Andy Tyler wrote: I know that for the National Park boundaries the national atlas data is much worse than park specific data. I would suspect that to be the case for national forest boundaries as well on the National Atlas. As Eric said, most government data is

Re: [Talk-us] National Atlas

OK, I have the data in JOSM in the WGS84 projection as a GPX file. I converted the GPX layer to a data layer. I then zoomed in to one small distinct piece and selected all the nodes. Next I went to the menu and choose Forest and entered a name for this piece (Coronado National Forest). However