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Elliott Plack elliott.plack at gmail.com
Fri Apr 18 18:46:36 UTC 2014


Greetings Import Community,

After SOTMUS, I have decided to resurrect the import of Maryland Dept. of
Natural Resources land boundary data. This import will take public domain
Maryland polygon data that represents the official boundaries of state
parks and protected areas and will bring them into OSM using a variety of
tags. I have documented this in the link below, complete with tables,
diagrams, examples, and a link to the data on GitHub.

*Brief Summary*: Maryland has made this data public domain. The plan is to
import this data in *manual mode* only. Local editors will examine the data
on an individual basis and then upload it when it meets tagging standards.
The tagging will be fairly comprehensive. We'll either use leisure=park or
leisure=nature_reserve depending on the data dictionary on the wiki. We'll
also use the boundary=protected scheme and I have written a key for each
state land type and corresponding protect_class type.

*Benefits:* This data in OSM will be fantastic for basemaps, as parks and
natural protected land boundaries are often hard to discern based solely on
imagery. Local surveys are impractical given the immense size of some of
these areas. Coupled with trails surveyed by other local mappers, or using
the new Strava slide tool, the OSM map can often outperform the official
state maps in terms of accuracy and informational content.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maryland_State_Parks

https://github.com/talllguy/maryland-dnr-osm-import/tree/master/dataWGS84/DNR%20Lands%20and%20Conservation%20Easements

Looking forward to any comments.

Thanks,

-- 
Elliott Plack
http://about.me/elliottp
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