Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

Calcasieu Parish is a parish in the state of Louisiana.

General To-dos

• Review of TIGER imports is needed (geometry, extra tags, and road names).
• Add service roads, driveways, and paths
• Landuse outside of cities (some progress outside of Sulphur)

Cities

• DeQuincy - Little progress
• Iowa - Most buildings automatically imported (need review). Little progress on POIs
• Lake Charles - Some progress, see page.
• Sulphur - Buildings mostly finished, many POIs still missing. Many instances of building=static_caravan should probably be retagged as building=house with building:prefabricated=yes.
• Vinton - Little progress
• Westlake - Little progress

Waterways and Lakes

• Upper Calcasieu River area multipolygon and river route imported from NHD and need fixing.
• Named minor rivers such as Bayou d'Inde and Bayou Choupique may or may not be fully mapped.
• Named streams and gullies and such are spottily mapped
• Unnamed ditches and streams are rarely mapped
• All three named lakes (Lake Charles, Prien Lake, and Moss Lake) are reasonably-well outlined.

Landcover

• Reasonably well-described around Sulphur and Choupique
• Little progress elsewhere

Data sources

• The Calcasieu Parish Police Jury GIS website has datasets for streets, addresses, and city limits in "open, free and reusable formats." No license is given for the data.
• As of August 2025, Bing imagery is from November 2022, and ESRI is from March 2025. If using Bing, check ESRI before uploading changes.