[Talk-us] Rails-To-Trails data

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Thu Mar 7 16:10:28 UTC 2019


Thanks Steve.

Mark


> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 10:00:20 -0800
> From: OSM Volunteer stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com>
> To: talk-us <talk-us at openstreetmap.org>
> Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Rails-to-Trails data
>
> While I'm not sure the email address from their website I used is exactly correct, I did make this request to RTC (and cc'd Richard).  I'll let people know here if or how they reply.
>
> Cheers,
> SteveA
> California
>
> On Mar 6, 2019, at 4:00 AM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemeD.net> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I see that Rails-to-Trails Conservancy donated their GIS data to Google:
>>
>> https://www.railstotrails.org/our-work/trail-mapping-and-gis/
>>
>> Anyone in the US fancy asking if they might do the same for OSM? Our coverage is good on the major trails (Katy Trail, Coeur d'Alenes, etc.), but often missing for smaller or less frequented trails, and I believe RTC have some metadata (surfaces etc.) it'd be good to have. Since most cycling apps and websites use OSM data it should be a win for RTC to have better data in OSM.
>>
>> I'm happy to approach them if no-one else does, but it'd probably be better coming from, you know, someone on the same continent.
>>
>> cheers
>> Richard
>>



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