[Imports] National Park Boundaries in Hawaii

[Scott Atwood]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Apollinaris Schoell <aschoell at gmail.com>wrote:

>  Scott Atwood wrote:
>
> Finally, the source field references http://www.nationalatlas.gov/, but
> all the import mapped data fields are prefixed with "massgis:", which seems
> quite odd, since this data should have nothing to do with MassGIS.
>
>   this data isn't good enough for an import. resolution is very crude and
> contains many errors
>

So the National Atlas data has been previously evaluated and found to be of
poor quality?


>  It looks like these boundaries were imported by user "John Serafin" in
> April 2009.  I tried contacting this user via the OSM messaging system, but
> I got no response.  I looked at the Import Catalogue on the OSM wiki, and I
> couldn't find anything obvious that corresponds to these imports.
>
>  Does anyone have any idea what the best way to get these boundaries fixed
> up?  Should they be deleted and reimported?
>
>   If you have any better data, delete and import the better one
>

I did a quick web search and found that the US National Park Service
maintains a website with a large collection of GIS data, including park
boundaries and campgrounds:

http://www.nps.gov/gis/data_info/park_gisdata/hi.htm

How do people go about evaluating the quality of data that is being
considered for import?  I'm not sure there is a better source for US
National Park boundaries than the NPS itself.  It's not like it's possible
to survey the boundaries by observations on the ground.  The only way I was
able to even determine that the previous import was problematic is that
places I knew to be just inside the park boundaries appeared just outside
the imported park boundaries.

-Scott

-Scott

-- 
Scott Atwood

The hill isn't in the way, it is the way.
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