[Talk-us-massachusetts] New MassGIS Trails data

[Greg Troxel]

"Peter Cooper Jr. via Talk-us-massachusetts"
<talk-us-massachusetts at openstreetmap.org> writes:

> So MassGIS just released their newsletter, and there was something in
> it that caught my eye and I thought others might be interested in
> too. They have a comprehensive "Trails" data set available now, which
> combines data from several sources (including OpenStreetMap!) into one
> place, which all is to somehow feed into the system 911 dispatchers
> use when finding people in the wilderness.

I have heard of that earlier but not had time to dig in.  It's really
not clear what they've done, and what the licensing is of the combined
dataaset.  It really has to be ODbL, but doesn't really seem like that.

> I'm not sure how much of this could be used to improve OpenStreetMap,
> but it's neat to see the work I've done mapping some trails end up
> actually being useful to 911 operators.

I doubt it is useful as the previous MassGIS trails data seemed not
accurate when I looked at it.  And given the licensing issue, we'd have
to figure out where there rest of the data came from and what it's terms
were.

But yes, it is very cool to see OSM trail data in use at PSAPs.