OpenStreetMap
Today I concentrated on Railroads… I started with correcting and adding to the Rail trail between Echo, UT and Park City, UT. From there, using satellite imagery, I fixed two spur lines off it.
After that, I shot to Herber Valley RR and corrected their yard/Rail properties. The I started working on the 74 Miles of the North Rock Springs Rail Spur to Atlantic City, WY. While doing that, I started editing the roads to show that they’re really 2-tracks for the most part.
As a Note to anyone traveling thru Wyoming. IF it says Residential Street, and your NOT in a town or city, IT MAY be 4WD passable, only a 2-track, graveled, or even Paved. Of course, it may not even be there either. As you find corrections that should be done, PLEASE make the changes…
Ben
Discussion
Comment from AndrewBuck on 23 March 2012 at 13:39
Looks like you are making excellent progress on that area. If you would like me to I can trace in the buildings for your town (shouldn’t take me more than a few hours for a town that size) and then you can add address and POI information to them. Doing this makes the map much more useful to people and makes for a much cooler looking map.
The address information can be collected very quickly via audio mapping, or somewhat slower with printed maps from walking papers.
-Buck
Comment from eagsc7 on 23 March 2012 at 18:51
That sounds awesome. I can get the additional info and add it into the POI files. Years ago, there was a POI file that i could export from Garmin MapSource, but i dont remember if it’d work in this case.
OSM is already better than Garmin maps(for roads at least). When will there be a 24k Topo version as well??
Comment from AndrewBuck on 23 March 2012 at 19:29
I will start on the buildings here in a little bit then. We cannot use POI information from other sources like garmin since they claim copyright on all of that information. Anything you add to OpenStreetMap must either be based off your own knowledge, or from you surveying the thing on the ground yourself, or traced from the Bing imagery that is available in the editors (we can only use Bing, google won’t allow us to use theirs).
If you want to load OpenStreetMap data onto your garmin gps (which is what I assume you mean by the 24k topo maps) there is info on the wiki on how to export the data and format it for the GPS.
Let me know if you have any further questions. I can be reached either here or on skype (username andrewbuck40) and also hang out in the OSM IRC chat channel (info on the wiki).
-Buck
Comment from robert on 23 March 2012 at 21:12
Looks like an interesting place to map.
Comment from eagsc7 on 25 March 2012 at 21:24
The 24K TOPO version that I speak of Isn’t Garmin Specific… Its a Specific Quality(Resolution) of elevation accuracy and Scaling. I.E. Garmin Topo 2008 is 100K , and the newer version is 24K. If there was a 10K Version, I’d Get it!
I’ve already got some of the maps on the GPS already… been there done that.