[Talk-us-massachusetts] Talk-us-massachusetts Digest, Vol 50, Issue 1

[Yury Yatsynovich]

Wow, thanks, Peter!
It looks like the LiDARlayer is very useful for tracing streams/rivers, as
those (especially small ones) are hard to see under the trees.


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> I really appreciate the recent posts here about getting information on
> streams. I've included some instructions on using those resources (and
> some others) on the wiki, and (since I know the wiki at least feels
> semi-authoritative) wanted to get a bit of feedback. I'm sure those of
> you who have been doing this for a while it may seem easy, but it took
> me some effort to figure out how to use the layers within iD. (And I
> don't yet feel confident using some even *more* sophisticated editor.)
> So I thought I'd document what I did and what URLs to use, mainly for my
> own reference so I didn't have to figure it out each time I wanted to
> use it but it seemed other people would probably find it useful too. A
> couple of the URLs were already there, but I added more layers that I've
> found helpful (like the MassGIS Basemap, some older Orthos, the 1:25,000
> Hydrography, and the Bridges data that have been referenced here
> recently) and I reformatted things a bit to make more sense to me.
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> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MassGIS#Imagery_and_Feature_Services
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> I guess I just wanted some sort of review that I didn't screw anything
> up too badly. In particular, I did some trial and error to get the
> Hydrography to show up in iD (since it doesn't seem to be a "tile
> service" like the others) and I'm not sure I'm doing it in the "best" way.
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> (And as a side note, the MassGIS LiDAR data is *incredible*! I didn't
> add the URL for it; it was already in the wiki and I just added some
> description and another link for information on it. But I can clearly
> see the old dirt road trail by my house, and stone walls, and better
> tell where streams are. That's an amazing resource that I was surprised
> I didn't know of existing before.)
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> Thanks,
> Peter
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