Re: Hello World! Welcome aboard Wes! Cliff has some excellent pointers below, and thought I could chuck a few other things your way... I lead a team of mapping editors aimed at improving the quality of the road network in terms of names and connectivity, you can see more of what we do on our GitHub page here (https://github.com/Microsoft/Open-Maps#intro).
We would use QGIS more than Arc products, but both can export geojson files, and these are the format of things that are used in Map Roulette, which is a dead handy tool for setting up some projects for point by point fixes at fairly much any scale on OSM. Suggest you have a wander around there to see what improvement projects are happening, https://maproulette.org/. The slack channel Cliff mentioned is certainly very active. If you are looking for any good tips on tools, processes, guidelines, etc. the OSM wiki is a great resource to start. Geofabrik has some decent tools based on OSM data, here - https://tools.geofabrik.de/ Osmose is an another quality analysis tool which helps uncover some descrepencies in the data http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/en OSMcha allows you look over some submitted edits to the map, with a host of filters and capabilities built in, https://osmcha.mapbox.com/ Really there is a host of things out there made very kindly available to help encourage mappers to do things well. I'd take a look at some of the specific lists for topics you may be interested in. Always up for a chat if you'd like to dig in to anything offline. Cheers, Oisin Geofabrik Tools<https://tools.geofabrik.de/> Map. A full-screen slippy map with several different map views, a tile grid for debugging, and links to many other maps. Map Compare tools.geofabrik.de [https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/6154722?s=400&v=4]<https://github.com/Microsoft/Open-Maps#intro> GitHub - Microsoft/Open-Maps: Microsoft Open Maps Team<https://github.com/Microsoft/Open-Maps#intro> Intro. This repo is for the Open Maps team at Microsoft making organized edits to OpenStreetMap. 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Re: Rails-To-Trails data (EthnicFood IsGreat) 3. Michigan Forest Land (David Martin) 4. Re: Michigan Forest Land (Clifford Snow) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 07:41:59 -0800 From: Clifford Snow <[email protected]> To: Stormwater <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Hello World! Message-ID: <cadaoplro23+ngaa_bmq2cpiyon+qyfke8o42qpb1oi_-1wi...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Wesley, Welcome to OSM. It nice to seem someone from a local GIS community contribute. I don't know of other mappers in your area, I'm in the PNW, but I can suggest looking at https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fresultmaps.neis-one.org%2Foooc&data=02%7C01%7Cv-oiher%40microsoft.com%7C8f4d6af948b94361f7a508d6a3266e82%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636875782807809431&sdata=gJueAn57YGMN1SkFhUoR%2Be%2BuBonT1VKKFiaiXtKQLgg%3D&reserved=0 to see who maps around the area. Besides this mailing list we also have an active Slack community which you can join at https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fslack.openstreetmap.us%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cv-oiher%40microsoft.com%7C8f4d6af948b94361f7a508d6a3266e82%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636875782807809431&sdata=TVjQS2SjMUd95r7BvuhqwCPDQL6uU0UUe28OAEd3MJc%3D&reserved=0. I should also plug attending our annual conference. This year it is being held in Minneapolis from Sep. 6-8th. You could hop on I35 and drive all the way there. ESRI does have an editor for OSM, but we don't see many edits using it. Two of the most popular editors are iD, a browser based editor and JOSM a stand alone editor written in java. iD does have a nice walk though feature to help you get started. Both editors are access to all of our imagery. Besides Bing, we have Digital Globe, Mapbox and ESRI. JOSM has the ability to load shapefiles which can be used to trace features or copy/paste them into the OSM layer. Note that we have guidelines that need to be followed if you wish to import (copy/paste) a large number of items. Let me know if you have any other questions. Best, Clifford On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 8:12 PM Stormwater <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > > > My name is Wes Keller. I am the GIS Analyst for the City of Universal > City. I would like to become active in the group and become a relied upon > resource for information within Universal City’s Jurisdiction. If you are > working in the San Antonio, Texas area please let me know so I can become > acquainted with you. I would like to begin adding my content to Open Street > Map. My preferred editing environment is ArcGIS Desktop. Any advice or > assistance would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Wesley Keller > > GIS Analyst > > City of Universal City > > > > [email protected] > > 210-659-0333 x722 > > > > 2150 Universal City Blvd > > Universal City, TX 78148 > > [image: CityLogoSmallJets] > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.openstreetmap.org%2Flistinfo%2Ftalk-us&data=02%7C01%7Cv-oiher%40microsoft.com%7C8f4d6af948b94361f7a508d6a3266e82%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636875782807809431&sdata=AUt6VIAhRh70FIZDGdrtflfw8lc33Qjh%2F7QRCMEFHFk%3D&reserved=0 > -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Mark > Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 10:00:20 -0800 > From: OSM Volunteer stevea <[email protected]> > To: talk-us <[email protected]> > 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 > know here if or how they reply. > > Cheers, > SteveA > California > > On Mar 6, 2019, at 4:00 AM, Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I see that Rails-to-Trails Conservancy donated their GIS data to Google: >> >> https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.railstotrails.org%2Four-work%2Ftrail-mapping-and-gis%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cv-oiher%40microsoft.com%7C8f4d6af948b94361f7a508d6a3266e82%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636875782807809431&sdata=7a8qJyyH51uefM6gxpJ9Fwto5foDXzDsqkZybI9hc7Y%3D&reserved=0 >> >> 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 >> often missing for smaller or less frequented trails, and I believe RTC have >> some metadata (surfaces etc.) it'd be good to have. Since most cycling apps >> and websites use OSM data it should be a win for RTC to have better data in >> OSM. >> >> I'm happy to approach them if no-one else does, but it'd probably be better >> coming from, you know, someone on the same continent. >> >> cheers >> Richard >> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 16:55:58 +0000 From: David Martin <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [Talk-us] Michigan Forest Land Message-ID: <dm5pr05mb3546d340450e2353bdc745f2f9...@dm5pr05mb3546.namprd05.prod.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi, I'm new to editing OSM, having been a heavy user of OSMAnd for Android for several years. I primarily use the maps for snowmobiling here in Northern Michigan, and building my own database of gpx tracks. The Michigan maps are lacking the information for state forest land. I have noted that the Upper Peninsula does have some state and national forest areas, but there is much missing here in the Lower Peninsula. I have found the data on the State of Michigan website, and have successfully downloaded the shapefile for all state forest land. I would like to proceed with adding this data to OSM, with the help of experienced editors. This is public data, available at https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgis-michigan.opendata.arcgis.com%2Fdatasets%2Fdfe0bcec31184b57b9f0d96bc02d6548_1&data=02%7C01%7Cv-oiher%40microsoft.com%7C8f4d6af948b94361f7a508d6a3266e82%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636875782807809431&sdata=ej%2BD0ZMWCJ2qBivfogFBO4wUKaGNlZmi7gs6fA2mTVU%3D&reserved=0 This is high-value data for all OSM users in Michigan, to understand when they are public land and help prevent trespassing onto private land. I often have to switch over to Google Maps to see if I am on state land. Please advise as to how I may proceed. Thanks, David Martin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Guidelines for importing data into OSM are available at https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.openstreetmap.org%2Fwiki%2FImport%2FGuidelines&data=02%7C01%7Cv-oiher%40microsoft.com%7C8f4d6af948b94361f7a508d6a3266e82%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636875782807809431&sdata=dF2uZJJ2BxXY1j5Edlk6D%2BkVWGk6C7j%2BBpv3kWNxrAc%3D&reserved=0. Please read the guidelines before proceeding. Basically the guideline want to insure that the data is licensed suitably for import into OSM, that the data is suitable for OSM, how you plan to convert between the states tagging to OSM tagging, conflating the data with what's already in OSM, and what account you plan to use to upload the data. A quick look at the states site it would appear that there is no license issue and the data seems suitable for import. Especially the state parks and wildlife preserves. The best editor I've found for this type of import is JOSM [1]. It sounds like you may not be familiar with JOSM. You can get help at Learnosm.org [2]. I would recommend getting started by doing some edits in JOSM before tackling this project. [1]. josm.openstreetmap.de [2]. https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flearnosm.org%2Fen%2Fjosm%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cv-oiher%40microsoft.com%7C8f4d6af948b94361f7a508d6a3266e82%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636875782807809431&sdata=okPhVNzOwe496W%2Bu1%2FRMWOPu7WtfkspOqIUobiKDLjw%3D&reserved=0 Best, Clifford On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 8:57 AM David Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to editing OSM, having been a heavy user of OSMAnd for Android for > several years. I primarily use the maps for snowmobiling here in Northern > Michigan, and building my own database of gpx tracks. > > The Michigan maps are lacking the information for state forest land. I > have noted that the Upper Peninsula does have some state and national > forest areas, but there is much missing here in the Lower Peninsula. > > I have found the data on the State of Michigan website, and have > successfully downloaded the shapefile for all state forest land. > > I would like to proceed with adding this data to OSM, with the help of > experienced editors. > > This is public data, available at > https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgis-michigan.opendata.arcgis.com%2Fdatasets%2Fdfe0bcec31184b57b9f0d96bc02d6548_1&data=02%7C01%7Cv-oiher%40microsoft.com%7C8f4d6af948b94361f7a508d6a3266e82%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636875782807809431&sdata=ej%2BD0ZMWCJ2qBivfogFBO4wUKaGNlZmi7gs6fA2mTVU%3D&reserved=0 > > This is high-value data for all OSM users in Michigan, to understand when > they are public land and help prevent trespassing onto private land. I > often have to switch over to Google Maps to see if I am on state land. > > Please advise as to how I may proceed. > > Thanks, > David Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.openstreetmap.org%2Flistinfo%2Ftalk-us&data=02%7C01%7Cv-oiher%40microsoft.com%7C8f4d6af948b94361f7a508d6a3266e82%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636875782807809431&sdata=AUt6VIAhRh70FIZDGdrtflfw8lc33Qjh%2F7QRCMEFHFk%3D&reserved=0 > -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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