[Talk-us-massachusetts] mass-trails.org - first version

[Jason Remillard]

Hi BIll,

Thanks for the feedback!

Malden and Boston are in now. Relations are 98% working now...

http://mass-trails.org/towns/Malden.html
http://mass-trails.org/towns/Boston.html

The contribute page is still on my TODO.

We have tons of properties that are mapped as separate ways that should be
combined into one large way or turned into a relation. In my code, two or
more properties with the same name in the same town are merged together
into a single page. It seems to work well.

For example, stony brook reservation in Boston has 29 ways that were
automatically combined into one page.

http://mass-trails.org/towns/Boston/stonybrookreservation.html

<http://mass-trails.org/towns/Boston/stonybrookreservation.html>
Also, another issue is what properties to show on the website.

I am currently pulling in everything that matches the following. The goal
is to show properties that you can walk on, and to support people
interested in land conservation in the state.

"landuse"="conservation"
"landuse"="recreation_ground"
"leisure"="recreation_ground"
"leisure"="nature_reserve"
"boundary"="national_park"
"boundary"="protected_area"

Does anybody have an feedback on those tags?

Jason


On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 2:15 AM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:

> Seems like a very good thing.
>
> (1)  0.0 acres in adjacent town
>
> A friend of mine is very interested in conservation land in the City of
> Malden.
> He's been doing a little trail-mapping without really knowing what he's
> doing, he's not a mapper at heart.
> I will want to refer him to your resource when it's ready.
>
> He would, I'm sure, immediately notice City of Melrose is listed as owning
> 0.0 acres within his city of Malden.
> which links to http://mass-trails.org/towns/Malden/mapleterrace.html
> which repeats "Area In Malden: 0.0 Acres"
>
> If this is an artifact of the boundary for a park / conservation tract
> running along the boundary of another town, you probably want either to
> (a) document this in the template and link to a FAQ or
> (b) suppress 0.0 acre listings ?
>
>
> ​
> ​(2) Boston. ​"Total Conservation Land Area 0.0 Square Miles, 0.0 Percent"
>
> We have both parks and conservation lands within the City of Boston, both
> City and DCR, likely others.
> Maybe you just haven't imported them yet.
>
> E.g.,
> Franklin Park http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/65053
>
>
> Stoney Brook Reservation http://www.openstreetmap.org/w
> ay/29859850#map=15/42.2610/-71.1396&layers=H &
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/29859850 & http://www.openstreetmap.org/w
> ay/29830095 (no Relation to tie them?)
>
> I
> ​ ​
> see on your top-level map you do have the Neaponset River Greenway
> ​​
> ​​
> ​and​ trails in the Stoney Brook​​
> ​​
> ​, that's cool. ​
>
>
>
> (3) "Contribute" page "Tagging" section mixes your rendering rules with
> tagging suggestions. I can see what you mean, but newbies may get the wrong
> idea.  And this could be construed by some of our more righteous OSM folks
> as encouraging newbies to be "tagging for the render." We don't want either
> the newbies or the righteous to think that!  So some re-wording might keep
> others from getting confused?  In addition to "Jump Right in," you should
> probably link the OSM Wiki and note our practice of tagging as it appears
> on the ground, and letting the renderer adjust.
>
>
> In particular, "width=2"  has some meaning other than "make it look
> wider".
> There are specific values for the surface tag on the wiki; linking
> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:surface> that page might be
> better than copying here.
>
>
> (What do you do with a trail that is MISSING an access= tag?)
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Bill in Boston
>
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