[Talk-us-massachusetts] 2015 ortho licensing, thank-you text

Peter Cooper Jr. pete-openstreetmap-massachusetts-list at cooperjr.name
Thu Jan 7 15:00:15 UTC 2021


On 1/7/2021 8:41 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Tom Parent <tomparent at gmail.com> writes:
>> This allows one to view and merge polygons directly all within
>> JOSM...forget over-tracing raster images!  It's eliminated a lot of tedium
>> of doing exports from OLIVER and then importing.  It's slick.  I can share
>> more details if interested or update the wiki myself.
> Perhaps add a Massachusetts/MapsWithAI page with the details and refer
> to it on otther pages?  Our MassGIS page is getting big and that feels
> splittable.

Actually, if it's more general than just Massachusetts and is more about 
connecting to any GIS service from the various states, I think it might 
make more sense to put it under JOSM documentation or tips or whatnot 
somewhere, and then the MassGIS page (or a page under it or such) would 
just have the MassGIS-specific URLs and a link to that documentation 
about using those URLs from within JOSM. Or something like that is my 
first thought, anyway.

I would actually really appreciate improvements to the Feature Services 
section of the MassGIS page (including how to use from within JOSM). I 
put a few things there based on the smaller datasets where I could just 
put the GeoJSON URL into iD, but I know there's a lot more data that 
could be used for things. (And much of the data I could find either 
didn't have a GeoJSON export option, or was so large that trying to use 
it from within iD just didn't work at all.) So I put a couple examples 
of the smaller data sets (things like Town Halls and Schools), but 
including the URLs for things like Open Space and the Historical 
Commission stuff along with pointers to documentation for integrating 
them with main editors sounds really useful to me.

There's something else on the MassGIS page that's bugging me: There's a 
section on a "USGS WMS server", which a mention that the link is broken. 
I don't know what it's trying to tell me about, or what it has to do 
with MassGIS, which is why I haven't touched it. So somebody who knows 
what that's about could clean that up if they're feeling ambitious.

And then there's a bunch of stuff from MassDOT that also seems useful. 
On the MassGIS page, I included the link to the Bridges dataset that 
Alan posted to this list since I found it useful even though it's not 
actually MassGIS. They seem to have a database of every sign they manage 
<https://geo-massdot.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/signs> but there's no 
GeoJSON export I can find, and even if there were it'd probably be too 
big to use effectively in iD. It seems that being able to refer to road 
signs easily while doing edits to roads would be helpful if it were easy 
to integrate, though. If I'm feeling ambitious I may try improving the 
MassDOT wiki page next, but don't hold your breath waiting for me.

-- 
Peter



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