[Talk-us-massachusetts] mass-trails.org, OSM, Covid-19

[Bill Ricker]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 6:57 PM Jason Remillard <remillard.jason at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The site was not getting updated much this year because of some
> technical issues. Pushing an updated map required many manual steps
> ...  The site is now hosted on Azure
> ... is fully up to date date now, and should stay fresher going forward.
>
> If you are a conservation/trail nerd, you might want to check out your
> favorite properties since the site makes it easy to spot mistakes in
> OSM. Happy mapping...
>

Very nice, well done! Very pretty and readable.

I will likely share this with some non-mapper conservation/trail folks.

Yes, i can see some open space that is not keyed on your 'Trails' map which
suggests i should look at their tagging in OSM.

A few quick constructive comments -

   - you might add a *map key* when displaying the trail map.
   I think i can infer blue trails are bicycle trails and green are
   hikable, but it doesn't specify.
   (And why are portions of the Harborwalk red-dashed like Seaport area
   crosswalks instead, yet sidewalks inside a housing complex are green lines?
   As anOSMer, i could go into JOSM and read the full data on those ways and
   see what tagging is but that doesn't help the conservation/trail folks i
   intend to share this with.)
   - when a town or city parklands rounds down to *0 sq.mi*,
   it would be reasonable in the headline to either display one significant
   digit or switch to acres (as is reported below) rather than
   "Malden has 0 square miles of open space, 6% of the total, and 7 miles
   of public trails"
   which feels odd.
   (Though not my city, i provide some Geo support to a Malden town
   activist, and he will NOT be happy with the 0  !)
   - I'm seeing white polygons? E.g., on 'Trails', Southwest Corridor Park
   in Boston (old Orange Line), Riverway (Boston/Brookline), DCR Neponset
   River Reservation (Boston/Milton) are rendering as white opaque polygons,
   on *top* of the trails. (Feels like a layer stacking issue?)
   On the 'Outdoor' render, the Riverway white polygons are translucent
   (but perhaps still too thick?), while the other two are still opaque.
   (Similarly, Stony Brook Reservation has translucent polygon over it in
   'Trails' render, which mutes its trails. Is that an invitation to zoom to
   its own map by clicking? For a compact park that works, but Neaponset Res
   is a spaghetti farm, its non-zoomable trailmap is pretty low res.)

Cheers!

// Bill



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