OpenStreetMap
I’ve been tinkering with western section of Acadia National Park in Maine where I’ve often visited.
This led me to the discover the NP Mapping page https://www.nps.gov/npmap/tools/park-tiles/improve/ which explains how their database and OSM interface. I now add the hash tag #parktiles to my changesets.
I read that it was ok for me to adjust the border of the park which are sloppy. I started by aligning a segment of the shore line with Bing and used that segment http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/21793444 to replace the segment from the border relation http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/162904033.
I set up routes for the trails so they now appear in Waymarked Trails http://hiking.waymarkedtrails.org/#routelist?map=13!44.3162!-68.3053.
There’s still lot of work to do; in just this one section of the park there are 16 serious errors and 2,246 warnings according to the JOSM Validator. Many are due to old and duplicated imported data. Anyone want to help?
I also found Chimani, https://www.chimani.com/ a free app based on OSM that works off-line and has the content of a good sized guide book.
Alan Bragg
Discussion
Comment from JimmyRocks on 29 April 2016 at 18:06
Hey Alan,
This is Jim from NPMap. Thanks for using the #parktiles hashtag!
For various reasons (licensing and accountability) we cannot use data directly from OpenStreetMap inside the parks. Although we do use it outside of the parks.
I would also encourage you to add our “Park Tiles” to iD as a custom layer
http://b.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/nps.397cfb9a,nps.3cf3d4ab,nps.b0add3e6/{z}/{x}/{y}.png?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoibnBzIiwiYSI6IkdfeS1OY1UifQ.K8Qn5ojTw4RV1GwBlsci-QThis will allow you to digitize from our information, which is in the public domain, and completely free to add to OpenStreetMap.
I know a professor at Bates College is interested in getting more students involved in OSM, especially within the Parks, so I’ll reach out to her to see if anyone wants to help!
Thanks again!
– Jim NPMap Profile