[Talk-us-massachusetts] Using Mass DCR Trail Maps

[Peter Cooper Jr.]

I'm not trying to import anything, just reference it, alongside other 
sources like aerial imagery and eventually maybe GPS traces I take 
myself, while making edits.

I did find a way to see the DCR Trails data at
<https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?layers=eb2a904422ba40b283f08641c7e5f65e>

And I think I can get a geojson export of it at
<https://opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/eb2a904422ba40b283f08641c7e5f65e_0.geojson>
though it looks to be too big as is to use within iD easily.

Thanks for confirming that those are all public domain sources, though.

On 1/8/2023 5:05 PM, Andy Anderson wrote:
> Yes, public domain. But it will be much easier to import a shapefile 
> from MassGIS than to extract details from a map. Here’s general 
> information on importing:
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import
>
> and here’s specific information about importing shapefiles:
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Software_comparison/Import_a_shapefile
>
> — Andy
>
>> On Jan 8, 2023 04:32 PM, at 4:32 PM, Peter Cooper Jr. via 
>> Talk-us-massachusetts <talk-us-massachusetts at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>>
>> Just to double-check, are the DCR trail maps posted at
>> <https://www.mass.gov/lists/dcr-trail-maps>
>> valid sources to reference when updating OpenStreetMap?
>> (Particularly for things like trail names, colors/symbols of the 
>> trails, amenities, etc.)
>>
>> I don't see any specific copyright info on them, and I know in 
>> general things the state publishes they consider to be public domain, 
>> but I just wanted to double-check.
>>
>> There is also some similar data from MassGIS (maybe even the source 
>> for those maps) at
>> <https://www.mass.gov/info-details/massgis-data-department-of-conservation-and-recreation-roads-trails>
>> in what looks like some sort of ArcGIS format, and I know that 
>> MassGIS definitely considers their stuff to be public domain, but I 
>> haven't dug into how to use that format easily yet, and sometimes 
>> it's handy to just look at an existing map, you know?
>>
>> -- 
>> Peter
>>
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