[Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

[Jason Remillard]

Hi Serge,

To answer your questions, consider the following
- Most of the hiking trails in MA were put in over the imported open
space layer.
- Unlike other countries, It is unacceptably risky to go on a hike on
some random trail that might be on private property. You are likely to
find yourself in an unpleasant confrontation with the property owner.

Believe me, I love talking about imports as much as anybody :-) but, I
was hoping to talk more about the 2nd half of the email. When I
started with OSM, the import has long since been done and I was hoping
to have a discussion about how to deal with the existing data. I have
been working on it, but I am not sure if I am doing the best thing.

Thanks
Jason.

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Jason Remillard
> <remillard.jason at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The open space layer from
>> MassGIS was imported several years ago. This has encouraged people to
>> map out many of the hiking trails.
>
> How do you make the connection from "The MassGIS open space layer was
> imported" to "this has encouraged people to map out many the hiking
> trails"?
>
> You're asserting a causal relationship where I see two unrelated events.
>
>> Surprisingly, I think that OSM is
>> currently the best/most complete map of hiking trails in Mass.
>
> Why is that surprising? OSM is the most compete biking map of the UK,
> and Germany. Outdoor activities and OSM have a very close
> relationship.
>
>> In fact
>> many of the mappers in Mass came to OSM from the local trail
>> committee's (myself included). So reality is that we do have some
>> parcel data data in OSM and its inclusion has been a net positive.
>
> Can you explain how the parcel data is a net positive?
>
> Also, can you explain why the import there is better than what was
> done in most of the rest of the world, where mappers simply went out
> with a GPS and mapped out the hiking trails themselves?
>
> - Serge