An update. Seeing Mark's recent post about is_in reminded me that it has been
two weeks since I politely asked the Rails-To-Trails Conservancy to donate to
OSM the same trail data they donated to Google Maps. I did receive a reply
that my message was forwarded to their "TrailLink group that
Thanks Steve.
Mark
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 10:00:20 -0800
From: OSM Volunteer stevea
To: talk-us
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Rails-to-Trails data
While I'm not sure the email address from their website I used is exactly
correct, I did make this request to RTC (and cc'd Richard). I'll let people
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 09:00:01 +
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> Hi all,
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> I see that Rails-to-Trails Conservancy donated their GI
While I'm not sure the email address from their website I used is exactly
correct, I did make this request to RTC (and cc'd Richard). I'll let people
know here if or how they reply.
Cheers,
SteveA
California
On Mar 6, 2019, at 4:00 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I see that
Hi all,
I see that Rails-to-Trails Conservancy donated their GIS data to Google:
https://www.railstotrails.org/our-work/trail-mapping-and-gis/
Anyone in the US fancy asking if they might do the same for OSM? Our
coverage is good on the major trails (Katy Trail, Coeur d'Alenes, etc.),
but
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/3/2012 4:11 PM, Anthony wrote:
What if it's an abandoned railway which is adjacent to a not-abandoned
railway?
Then it's already tagged as a rail trail.
Which tag should be used, though?
On 7/3/2012 4:11 PM, Anthony wrote:
What if it's an abandoned railway which is adjacent to a not-abandoned
railway?
Then it's already tagged as a rail trail.
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On 6/27/2012 10:46 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
Ideally a map of rail trails
should include them (e.g. the one in Trains magazine's May 2011
issue), but there's no easy way to determine if a trail is one.
I would map the ways independently when the trail is adjacent to the rails.
Duh? The
* Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com [2012-06-27 12:59 -0400]:
But another popular kind of rail trail, a rail with trail, cannot
be found in this manner.
[snip]
Does anyone have any ideas for tagging? The simplest would be
something like rail_with_trail=yes or maybe railway=adjacent.
Either
Currently it's simple enough to find most (correctly-tagged) rail trails
in the database: find anything tagged railway=abandoned and highway=[one
of the trail values]. These trails are usually flatter than roads, and
are therefore well-suited for long-distance cycling.
But another popular
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