[Imports] Trails in National Forests of New Mexico USA

[Sam Vekemans]

cool,
I'll add that info to the GoogleDocs chart.
And i think that should be enough info for the nit-pickers to have a
picnick with. :)


It will be neet to see how the Tiger schema compares with this.


Cheers,
Sam


p.s. the GoogleDocs chart is not yet close to being an authorative
source of info. The wiki chart is still more current..

On 9/3/10, Samat K Jain <lists at samat.org> wrote:
> On Friday, September 03, 2010 02:46:53 am Richard Weait wrote:
>> If the import is really small and "local" to you then you could be
>> your own community, but engaging with other mappers in the area can be
>> worthwhile.
>
> For the first few forests I mentioned, I'm the only immediate mapper in the
> area, so it is just me. Is there an easy way to find other users in nearby
> urban areas? The forests themselves are mostly pristine, nothing but
> boundaries and TIGER data.
>
>> You've made no reference to the license of the trail shape files.  I
>> know that federal data is published without copyright restrictions
>> (PD), but federal agencies can also re-publish data from other
>> sources.  That re-published data does not fall under the unrestricted
>> license automatically.
>
> AFAIK from the metadata (Lincoln National Forest as an example):
>
>   http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/gis/lin/Trail.htm
>
> the originator is the USFS, so I am assuming it is PD. I'll check the
> dataset
> for each forest as I go along but I think it unlikely that this data be
> licensed from another, since they are all managed federal lands (i.e. there
> isn't much commercial use for this data).
>
>> > I've noticed that a much of this data is a little off…
>>
>> hmmm, how little?  :-)  Perhaps there is a better source?
>
> It varies. Some trails are spot-on, some have a completely different shape.
> I
> believe the issue is that trails are destroyed or moved around frequently,
> and
> trails only get repaired/cleared/checked every 1-2 years by forest service
> crews.
>
> I doubt there is a better source.
>
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