A Linux conference in east TN?!! I am going create a FAQ section in the Project WIKI for all listserv comments on this project, in keeping with Public Domain/FOIA status.
-----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Ollie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 11:59 AM To: Thomas Colson Cc: talk-us Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Update for Great Smoky Mountains National Park On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Thomas Colson <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
