Montana, like many western state, need help in rural areas. I have been wondering about an outreach program with local ag extensions, or Future Farmers of America, 4H, Boy Scouts, etc. I attended a small county fair last year. The local Future Farmers did a demo of remote subs they using to map ocean floors. It was part of a NASA (I think) program to get kids interested in science.
Clifford On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 9:01 AM, Wolfgang Zenker <[email protected]> wrote: > * Clifford Snow <[email protected]> [160306 16:14]: > > The first example you provided is located in Stillwater County, Montana. > > Stillwater has gis data available, but unfortunately for me requires > > Microsoft Silverlight browser plugin which I am not able to run. I would > > check the county gis database for more information. The website is > > http://www.stillwater.mt.gov/GIS/default.asp > > Silverlight is a no-go for me as well, I don't think it even exists > for my operating system. > > > There is even someone you could contact. I find most county gis > departments > > usually more than willing to help, especially if you ask nice. Even in > > counties without free data, they might be able to provide you with the > name > > of the runway. > > I will contact them as soon as I'm done with cleaning up TIGER geometries > in the area, because I have a few more questions (e.g. roads that look > a lot like residential roads, but with no name given on TIGER). > Thanks for the contact! > > > Have you contacted the user? While it looks like a runway, I'm not > certain > > that it is. Although, not sure what else it could be. > > Well, the user would be myself in this case, and I added these things > as runways because that is what they look like. > > > FWIW - I used to live in Montana and am familiar with parts of the state. > > Great, so there are at least a few people in the project familiar > with Montana. I've been there only a few times as a tourist, and I > have been working on cleaning up TIGER geometries for Montana > basically because (almost) no-one else did. My hope is that we > find more mappers if one can start mapping without having to clean > up a lot of broken data first. > > Wolfgang > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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