Hi Serge, To answer your questions, consider the following - Most of the hiking trails in MA were put in over the imported open space layer. - Unlike other countries, It is unacceptably risky to go on a hike on some random trail that might be on private property. You are likely to find yourself in an unpleasant confrontation with the property owner.
Believe me, I love talking about imports as much as anybody :-) but, I was hoping to talk more about the 2nd half of the email. When I started with OSM, the import has long since been done and I was hoping to have a discussion about how to deal with the existing data. I have been working on it, but I am not sure if I am doing the best thing. Thanks Jason. On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Jason Remillard > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The open space layer from >> MassGIS was imported several years ago. This has encouraged people to >> map out many of the hiking trails. > > How do you make the connection from "The MassGIS open space layer was > imported" to "this has encouraged people to map out many the hiking > trails"? > > You're asserting a causal relationship where I see two unrelated events. > >> Surprisingly, I think that OSM is >> currently the best/most complete map of hiking trails in Mass. > > Why is that surprising? OSM is the most compete biking map of the UK, > and Germany. Outdoor activities and OSM have a very close > relationship. > >> In fact >> many of the mappers in Mass came to OSM from the local trail >> committee's (myself included). So reality is that we do have some >> parcel data data in OSM and its inclusion has been a net positive. > > Can you explain how the parcel data is a net positive? > > Also, can you explain why the import there is better than what was > done in most of the rest of the world, where mappers simply went out > with a GPS and mapped out the hiking trails themselves? > > - Serge _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
