New Jersey

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New Jersey, United States, North America

latitude: 40.4072, longitude: -74.0341

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New Jersey is a state in United States, North America at latitude 40°24′25.92″ North, longitude 74°02′02.76″ West.

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Routes and Relations

Work is underway to create relations for the roadways, transit systems, bicycle paths and railroads (both freight and passenger) throughout the state. ~~The /Railroads wiki has not yet begun, but it is in an early planning phase.~~ (abandoned?)

Network values for New Jersey routes:

network=US:NJ for NJ state routes
network=US:NJ:NJTP for the New Jersey Turnpike
network=US:NJ:GSP for the Garden State Parkway
network=US:NJ:ACE for the Atlantic City Expressway

Places

Counties

Roads

TIGER

The TIGER import is finished, however there's still significant amount of cleanup left to be done. Review roads, realigning them and updating attributes as needed. Many track roads are incorrectly tagged with highway=residential, especially in the Pinelands, rural areas, and military bases. Replace with highway=track, and it's beneficial to add the tracktype=* too.

Junction and connectivity problems have mostly been fixed over the years.

Classifications

Note that, unless stated below, tags should not be applied simply based on the administrative level of the road.

Motorway Controlled access throughout; divided highway; no traffic lights or cross traffic, save for frontage roads. Should include all toll roads.
Trunk Generally controlled access (interchanges, flyovers, and jughandles), sometimes using traffic circles (e.g. NJ 38, NJ 70, NJ 23, NJ 208). Can be applied to a long two-lane route for at least 30 miles as long as it does not parallel a road built to higher standards (e.g. NJ 49, NJ 31, US 40, US 322, US 206). Freeway-grade portions may be designated as motorways if they meet all requirements.
Primary Well-traveled roads that run long distances through an urban area or between areas where a trunk road or motorway is not available. May parallel a motorway, but not a trunk road (e.g. US 9 south of Toms River, US 202 in Morris, Passaic, and Bergen Counties). Should include most 500-series county routes and select 600-series roads.
Secondary State, county, and municipal routes that serve as arterials or carry long distances, or form links between major roads.
Tertiary All other signed numbered roads and important municipal roads, but not any roads maintained by a homeowner's association, public institution, or business.
Residential All other complete public access roads.
Unclassified All public access road stubs and high-traffic roads maintained by a homeowner's association, public institution, or business.

Protected lands and state parks

The Protected Areas Database of the U.S. from the USGS provides protected area boundaries for the entire United States, but it can be downloaded as shapefiles by state. Click to download the NJ PAD-US data (warning, about 200 MB, but this is because the ZIP contains a few shapefiles.) The only one you need is "PADUS2_0Combined_DOD_Fee_Designation_Easement_NJ." The boundaries are often divided by roads. These should be removed as they just needlessly complicate the map. Also, consider removing very small exclaves and inner boundaries, especially if they are not verifiable on the ground.

State parks, forests, and recreation areas

Most should be tagged as a relation with these tags: (few exceptions)

type=boundary
boundary=protected_area
leisure=nature_reserve
name=*
protect_class=(check IUCN level, most will be 5)
protection_title=State Park / State Forest / State Preserve / Recreation Area
operator=New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry
wikipedia=*
wikidata=*
website=*

Name	Object	Status
Abram S. Hewitt State Forest	8515545 8515545
Allaire State Park	8293737 8293737	Boundary and tagging
Allamuchy Mountain State Park	144426 144426	Boundary and tagging
Atsion Recreation Area	40508514 40508514	Make relation, boundary and tagging
Barnegat Lighthouse State Park	10410758 10410758
Bass River State Forest	11023115 11023115
Belleplain State Forest	28595409 28595409	Make relation; Boundary and tagging
Brendan T. Byrne State Forest	11018315 11018315
Bull's Island Recreation Area	18049376 18049376	Boundary and tagging
Cape May Point State Park	8294644 8294644
Cheesequake State Park	8295233 8295233	Boundary and tagging
Corson's Inlet State Park	11727143 11727143
Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park	18280332 18280332
Double Trouble State Park	11017653 11017653
Farny State Park	922861640 922861640 922861641 922861641	Make into one relation?
Fort Mott State Park	40387232 40387232	Fix relation, maybe replace park tag?
Hacklebarney State Park	8296053 8296053	Fix relation, boundary and tagging
High Point State Park	144422 144422
Hopatcong State Park	41272554 41272554	Fix relation, boundary and tagging
Island Beach State Park	8294699 8294699
Jenny Jump State Forest	8526989 8526989
Kittatinny Valley State Park	11015294 11015294
Liberty State Park	8262630 8262630	(note: fits leisure=park tag)
Long Pond Ironworks State Park	8472098 8472098
Monmouth Battlefield State Park	8479993 8479993	Fix boundary
North Brigantine Natural Area	868369392 868369392	Make relation, boundary and tagging
Norvin Green State Forest	11012082 11012082
Parvin State Park	8462857 8462857
Penn State Forest	6656823 6656823
Pigeon Swamp State Park	357736839 357736839	Make relation; boundary and tagging
Princeton Battlefield State Park	7930158 7930158
Ramapo Mountain State Forest	10928925 10928925
Rancocas State Park	142402 142402
Ringwood State Park	10928924 10928924
Round Valley Recreation Area	12411506 12411506	Fix boundary and tagging
Six Mile Run Reservoir Site	12427734 12427734	Fix boundary and tagging
Spruce Run Recreation Area	12420998 12420998	Fix boundary and tagging
Stephens State Park	8480024 8480024	Fix relation, boundary and tagging
Stokes State Forest	8512441 8512441
Stow Creek State Park	17343939 17343939
Swartswood State Park	8479981 8479981	Fix boundary and tagging
Tall Pines State Preserve	11046166 11046166
Voorhees State Park	8479989 8479989	Fix boundary and tagging
Warren Grove Recreation Area	9166608 9166608	Fix tagging
Washington Crossing State Park	8480008 8480008	Fix relation, boundary and tagging
Washington Rock State Park	607566426 607566426	(note: fits leisure=park tag)
Wawayanda State Park	8481989 8481989
Wharton State Forest	11020646 11020646
Worthington State Forest	11014693 11014693

Wildlife Management Areas

There are 122 Wildlife Management Areas in New Jersey. Currently, only a handful are mapped. Use the same tagging, except protect_class=4 and protection_title=Wildlife Management Area

List of New Jersey wildlife management areas on Wikipedia

Division of Fish and Wildlife website with all WMAs and maps

Power Network

Power lines in New Jersey
Lines with voltage on Mar 9th, 2011

Data Sources

Potential Data Sources provides a list of many layers, some of which could be imported into OSM.

Data sources for the State of New Jersey can be searched via NJGIN. Check the metadata to determine whether or not a data source is licensed appropriately for use in OpenStreetMap.

New Jersey Aerial Photography

Comparison between Potlatch and JOSM using the 2007 NJ aerials WMS. Click on the image for full size.

The State of New Jersey has statewide aerial photography available through a Web Map Service. There are no restrictions on its use. The most recent data available are from 2015. Even though this data covers the entire state with little temporal variation, aerial photography provided elsewhere is more up-to-date, so it should be used with caution.

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