Organised Editing /Activities/ Mapping Protected Area in the US by Mapbox

Background

As part of on-going work to improve the quality of OpenStreetMap data, Mapbox is going to improve data quality in National Parks of the USA. Here is a link to the Github ticket. Also during the step of establishing workflow and source research team started to map Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky, and New River Gorge National Park and Preserve in Virginia

Details

We’re interested in almost all natural properties like National Parks/Forests/Reserves and State parks/Recreation areas/Wildlife areas etc.

The team is going to map primarily roads and POIs according to official government sources like USDA or US FS A certain source will be mentioned in our comment.

Planning

California state will be the first where we’ll start to improve OSM data and the first raw or parks are:

- Ash Creek Wildlife Area

- Red Rock Canyon State Park

- Richardson Grove State Park

- Samuel P. Taylor State Park

- Colusa-Sacramento River State Recreation Area

- George J. Hatfield State Recreation Area

- Woodson Bridge State Recreation Area

- Mountain Home State Forest

- Angeles National Forest

- Cleveland National Forest

- Eldorado National Forest

After it is done we’ll make updates on this ticket.

Timeframe

The team started to map in the middle of July

Tools

We will use existing OpenStreetMap editing tools, we will use #hashtag for the project #mbx_parks_usa

Editor: iD or JOSM

Satellite Imagery: Bing, Maxar, Esri and any available on ID

Contact Person

We welcome feedback, suggestions, and insights from local mappers. If you have questions about this work, or a specific edit by our team, please reach out to Vlada at vlada.boitsik@mapbox.com or post a comment in a changeset.

Results

This ticket is closed because this project was stopped in September and during that period our team is enriched data for 27 Protected Areas, mostly it was State Parks in California. Almost 15,000 of road features were edited (added or fixed). Our team used an official maps for the areas mostly from National Park Service website and from California Department of Parks and Recreation. All the edits could be found by #mbx_parks_usa in OSM