[Talk-ca] A new available source of trail data in the Nanaimo area

[James]

Hopefully the names of said trails are not so vulgar as past experiences.
If they have surveyed all of the trails themselves and are making the data
available, I don't see an issue with using it(other than it being grossly
inacurate)

On Wed, May 2, 2018, 9:19 PM Doug Hembry, <doughembry at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings..
> I wanted to bring to the attention of Vancouver Island mappers a source of
> some trail data in the Nanaimo area that I don't feel competent to handle
> myself. On a recent vacation visit to friends in Nanaimo, I learned that an
> association called the Back Country Horsemen of British Columbia have
> surveyed many of their customary riding trails around McKay Lake, resulting
> in a shapefile that they are prepared to make available to OSM.
>
> Originally, hearing about this shapefile, and expecting just a few trails
> clustered around the lake, I offered to import the data to OSM myself, but
> was surprised to find that it described quite a large network of trails
> covering a significant area. On reflection, given that I'm based in the SF
> Bay area in CA, and have zero local knowledge, I abandoned that idea. With
> the permission of my contact in the association, I'm asking if any local
> mappers might be interested in looking at the data with a view to importing
> it to OSM.
>
> The GPS survey appears to have been carefully done, and displayed in JOSM
> it conforms closely to those parts of the trails that are visible in
> imagery. The downside is that information describing physical
> characteristics (type of highway: path, track, road?; width, surface,
> smoothness, etc) is mostly absent. As is information about permissions
> (horse, bike, ATVs, private or public, etc), jurisdiction, and supporting
> amenities (eg, car parks, signage, water). Some of the trails do have
> names.  So clearly some digging or surveying for the missing data would be
> necessary. (Possibly some association members might be willing to help, but
> I didn't bring up the possibility). But the point is, that this data
> describes real trails that are currently in use for equestrian recreation.
> And I believe (but am not certain) that the Trans-Canada trail (Great
> Trail?) intersects this trail network.
>
> So that's it... Anyone who is interested in looking into this source
> should feel free to contact Lynn deVries of Back Country Horsemen of BC at
> neseeka at gmail.com who can provide a copy of the shapefile.
>
> Best..
> Doug Hembry
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