On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Thomas Colson <thomas_col...@nps.gov> wrote: > Great Smoky Mountains National Park is planning to update its core base > data. We have identified many inconsistencies in online location-based data > which often results in hazardous navigation scenarios for park visitors > (e.g. travel on a closed trail, wrong way on road, etc…) and plan to slowly > migrate our latest data collection to the public domain. In addition, we are > including many new Points of Interest and other man-made features not > presently included in the park OSM footprint.
I think that this is an awesome project. It's been a while since I've been to the park, but I've been daydreaming about a visit to the park this summer in conjunction with a Linux user conference. Probably won't happen due to time & budget constraints but I'm glad to see these sort of improvements to the map. One question about what I saw on the wiki page. I can understand not wanting the public to drive on administrative roads, but are those roads closed to hikers as well as vehicular traffic? I can understand keeping hikers off of the roads under normal circumstances but if I was out hiking a trail that crossed an administrative road I'd be pretty confused if the map on my GPS didn't show it. I'd find them useful as navigational references if nothing else. I would think that it'd be useful in emergency situations as well. For example if a group of hikers was trying to evacuate an injured/sick person an administrative road could be a quicker way to get to more advanced medical care. Or for volunteers conducting a search for lost hikers. -- Jeff Ollie _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us