Florida
V・T・E Florida, United States, North America  |
| latitude: 27.78, longitude: -83.77 |
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Florida is a state in United States, North America at latitude 27°46′48.00″ North, longitude 83°46′12.00″ West.
Status
All of the TIGER (US Census) data has been loaded, but needs lots of cleanup. Some areas have already been updated. The quality of the original TIGER varies by county. Urban areas have seen more cleanup and new mapping activity than rural areas. Large swaths of rural areas are virtually untouched.
The overall mapping community in Florida is small, but is seeing signs of growth. A small number of mappers have done a large amount of work in Florida, including a good number of remote arm-chair mappers. The Tampa / St Pete area probably has the largest concentration of active mappers and has a growing community of local mappers. Other counties have one or two prolific local mappers who are making major contributions.
Publicly Available Data
Note that, due to the Microdecisions, Inc. v. Skinner court decision, all public records in Florida are public domain and not legally copyrightable.This includes records produced by any agent of the Florida government, such as counties, cities, districts, regions, and any other public offices or bodies established by law. Thus, you can use any public GIS data you find on official county or city websites or through public records requests (as long as they are cities or counties in Florida, as other states may have different laws) as a source for OSM data. Also, all federally produced data is public domain as well, such as the USGS topo maps.
Data Sources
Below is an incomplete list of potential data sources; please add any that you find:
- Florida Geographic Data Library (state-wide database of public GIS data maintained by the University of Florida with over 400 layers; may be slightly outdated sometimes so be careful)
- Broward County GIS
- Collier County GIS Data
- Hendry County GIS Department
- Hendry County Property Appraiser Map
- Lee County GIS Data (includes parks, trails, fire stations, developments, voting districts, zip codes, LIDAR, and public transport data)
- Lee County Property Appraiser Map (includes parcels, addresses, photos (high definition and recent aerial photos, oblique photos, and ground photos), building information)
- Orange County Interactive Mapping
- Orange County GIS Data Hub
Route Relations
A log of route relations for the state of Florida can be found here.
Tagging ideas for Florida
References for more general information about what to use to tag each kind of road. United States roads tagging, Editing Standards and Conventions, highway tag usage and Interstate Highways Relations.
Since there are multiple governments involved in building/maintaining roads, and there doesn't seem to be usable correlation of what they call a road to the types used in OpenStreetMap, road types need to be done by judgment. The following guidelines are for urban areas, and are loosened for rural and tightened in dense urban to avoid making everything secondary or larger in an area.
highway=motorway
Grade separated from other roads with access via on/off ramps with merge lanes. A divided road of at least 2 lanes each direction (the only exception being FL 570 near Lakeland). No signal lights or intersections. All "Interstates" or other divided and limited access roads called "Freeway", "Highway", "Turnpike", or "Expressway". Speed limits generally 55MPH or higher.
highway=trunk
Typically the end of state motorways or US motorways. Very few intersections. Speed limits usually 40 MPH or higher.
highway=primary
Always US highways, also important State highways that serve, for example, as a link from an Interstate to a US highway or town. Speed limits usually 40 MPH or higher. Mainly roads that connect two or more cities.
highway=secondary
Most county roads that run through urban areas/connect larger towns/connect 3 or more towns regardless of size, or other major roads in urban areas. If the county road parallels a state/US road (not an Interstate), the county road is tertiary. Also can mean less busy state roads that connect lesser towns, or in urban areas are not extremely important nor the best route to its destination, qualify as secondary. Speed limits generally 35 MPH or higher.
highway=tertiary
Since most towns and villages are connected primarily by state roads and US roads, tertiary roads usually refer to the less busy county roads, and main connector roads through neighborhoods. Speed limits generally 25 MPH or higher. It also can refer to roads without a ref=* that connect towns, in addition to the criteria listed above. Unlike other major routes, this type of road is seen as acceptable to end with no other exit (i.e., dead end).
highway=unclassified
Not necessarily used in the interconnecting grid network, but more commonly used as a road that would have the residential tag, but with no houses. Speed limits generally 35 MPH or lower.
highway=residential
Primarily subdivision roads with housing on one or both sides. Not normally used for through traffic. Speed limits generally 30 MPH or lower.
highway=living_street
Some mappers use this tag for paved roads that have a speed limit of 15 MPH or lower (or no speed limit), especially roads that end in a 'cul de sac' and might have a Children at Play sign. No roads should stem off of a living street.
place=locality
No population. Many hamlets with no population tags are actually place=locality, unless the area is an unincorporated community. Try Wikipedia for that info. If none is found, use place=locality. Examples: Italia, FL
place=isolated_dwelling
Population 1-3. Examples: Sisco, FL
place=hamlet
Population lower than 1,000, but higher than 3. Examples: Branford, FL; Fort White, FL
place=village
Population 1,000-10,000, but can certainly be relaxed if the population is above 9,500. Examples: Malabar, FL; Indialantic, FL
place=town
Population 10,000-50,000 Examples: Fort Pierce, FL; Cocoa, FL
place=city
Population 50,000+ Examples: Orlando, FL; Tampa, FL; Palm Bay, FL; Jacksonville, FL; Miami, FL; Melbourne, FL
Counties
If you are doing some editing in one or more Florida counties, please add your comments here. These are some current observations as of April 2011.
| County | Note |
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| Alachua | Original TIGER was okay; but not great. Not much work has been done. UF campus could use a lot of help. Come on Gator fans! |
| Baker | |
| Bay | Original TIGER pretty good. A few rough spots. |
| Bradford | |
| Brevard | Original TIGER was okay. A lot of work has gone into re-aligning streets; adding water features; and in some cases more detail such as schools areas; buildings; parks; golf courses and more but mostly in central to south Brevard. Still more to do. |
| Broward | Original TIGER was pretty bad. A lot of work has gone into re-aligning streets; adding water features; and in some cases more detail such as schools areas; buildings; parks; golf courses and more. Still more to do. |
| Calhoun | Original TIGER pretty bad. Not to the level of junk; but a lot of re-aligning to do. |
| Charlotte | |
| Citrus | Original TIGER was pretty bad. Some scattered street re-alignment; but a long way to go. Citrus has some large areas of residential street networks built in the 1960s that are still today not fully populated. |
| Clay | |
| Collier | |
| Columbia | Original TIGER was pretty bad. Major street re-alignment in Lake City. |
| Desoto | |
| Dixie | Original TIGER had displacement issues. Major roads were on-target. Cleaned up almost all of the streets; and converted the backwoods trails from 'residential' to 'track'. Added many abandoned rail spurs from the logging period 1900-1930. Conversion of traditional street names to 911 names in progress. Added POI for most businesses in Cross City and Old Town. |
| Duval | Original TIGER decent. Still work to do. |
| Escambia | Original TIGER decent. Still work to do. |
| Flagler | |
| Franklin | Original TIGER was pretty bad. Major street re-alignment along the coast; especially Apalachicola; Carrabelle; St George Island; and Alligator Point. |
| Gadsden | |
| Gilchrist | Original TIGER was passable for a beginning. Added a few recent subdivisions that were missing. Added POI for most businesses in Trenton and Bell. |
| Glades | |
| Gulf | |
| Hamilton | |
| Hardee | |
| Hendry | |
| Hernando | |
| Highlands | Original TIGER pretty good. |
| Hillsborough | |
| Holmes | Original TIGER pretty good. |
| Indian River | Original TIGER street alignment not good. A lot of work has gone into re-aligning streets. |
| Jackson | Original TIGER street alignment not good in urban areas. Rural areas seem OK; but not great. |
| Jefferson | Original TIGER street alignment not good. Some cleanup of streets in Monticello. |
| Lafayette | |
| Lake | |
| Lee | Original TIGER decent and mostly cleaned up. Road alignment and naming is quite good, however highway classifications still need some work. |
| Leon | Original TIGER decent. Major street realignment in a few parts of Tallahassee. |
| Levy | Original TIGER pretty bad. Cedar Key mostly cleaned up. Cleaned up TIGER for Chiefland; Fanning Springs and points in between. Added many POI for businesses in both. |
| Liberty | Original TIGER pretty bad. Not to the level of junk; but a lot of re-aligning to do. |
| Madison | |
| Manatee | |
| Marion | |
| Martin | Original TIGER pretty good. Some work cleaning it up. |
| Miami-Dade | Original TIGER decent. Some work has been done; but many areas could use street re-alignment. 20k+ ways unedited. |
| Monroe | Original TIGER status unknown. Major street re-alignment throughout the Keys. |
| Nassau | Original TIGER pretty bad. Not to the level of junk; but a lot of re-aligning to do. |
| Okaloosa | |
| Okeechobee | Original TIGER pretty good. |
| Orange | Original TIGER status unknown. Major street realignment and additional features added across the county. Disney area looks awesome. |
| Osceola | Original TIGER is good in some places and bad in others. Most streets appear to be un-reviewed. I am working through the Saint Cloud and Narcoossee areas. Valerietheblonde (talk) 03:17, 4 April 2016 (UTC) |
| Palm Beach | Original TIGER pretty good. |
| Pasco | Original TIGER has poor alignment. A lot of realigning done; more to go. |
| Pinellas | |
| Polk | Original TIGER was decent. Some strange issues in Polk; including braided ways (mostly fixed) and over-noded ways that do not follow straight lines or have proper curvature (Many of these left to fix). |
| Putnam | Original TIGER has poor alignment. A lot of realigning done; more to go. |
| Santa Rosa | |
| Sarasota | |
| Seminole | Original TIGER has poor alignment. Some realigning done; lots more to go. |
| St Johns | Original TIGER pretty good. |
| St Lucie | Original TIGER street alignment not good. A lot of work has gone into re-aligning streets. |
| Sumter | |
| Suwannee | Original TIGER street alignment not good. Major street re-alignment in Live Oak. |
| Taylor | |
| Union | |
| Volusia | Original TIGER not good alignment. Some areas have been realigned; but much more to go. |
| Wakulla | Original TIGER street alignment not good. A lot of work to do. |
| Walton | |
| Washington | Original TIGER pretty good. A few rough spots. |
Cities
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| ZIP | City | Tracks | Mapped | Labeled | Notes |
| 32901, 32902, 32904, 32912, 32934, 32935, 32936, 32940, 32941 | Melbourne, Florida | 45%? | 32940 is mapped 100%. Other areas not as much. Working on 32934 & 32935 right now. All roads not in TIGER data should be present. --Panther37 16:45, 23 March 2011 (UTC) | ||
| Orlando, Florida | TIGER data needs to be cleaned up, newer data is significantly shifted and wrong scale from Yahoo data. Spot checks of Yahoo data has been correctly placed. | ||||
| 32135, 32142, 32164, 32174 | Palm Coast, Florida | 90% | |||
| St. Petersburg, Florida | |||||
| Tampa, Florida | |||||
| 32940, 32955 | Viera, Florida | 100% | TIGER import was missing about half of the streets. All cleaned up now --Panther37 02:20, 14 March 2011 (UTC) | ||
| 32950 | Malabar, Florida | 100% | Streets reäligned, woods added. --Floridaeditor (talk) 13:47, 21 May 2020 (UTC) | ||
Hydrography
Appears that some NHD imports have been done in scattered areas. A good bit of hand tracing water features in scattered areas. A coordinated effort is needed to add the remaining lakes and rivers. In addition, many miles of coastline need re-alignment/improvement.
Land Cover
A land cover import is being proposed. The data is produced by the five Water Management Districts in Florida. The idea is to start with water. This is in the early stages of discussion. Some manual importing of water polygons from thebeen done to date.
Railroads
See Florida/Railroads for a very early wiki seed.
Administrative Boundaries
Some areas of improvement utilizing high accuracy municipal sources for reference. Much more to go.
Land Use
Small amounts of improvements scattered around.
Trails
National Trails
| Name | OSM ID | Notes | |
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| Florida National Scenic Trail | 1163455 1163455
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The Florida Trail 1163455 1163455 has been mapped in the Central Florida area with a bit of work in the panhandle. Much remains to be done North and Southwest of the Ocala National Forest and South of Three Lakes WMA. You can compare OSM to the official webmap to see where to begin and download the KMZ to get cracking.
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| East Coast Greenway | 1774795 1774795
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Regional/State Trails
| Name | OSM ID | Notes |
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| Florida Coast-to-Coast Trail | not started | |
| Van Fleet State Trail | 2113722 2113722
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| Shingle Creek Regional Trail | 1828311 1828311
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| Palatka-to-Saint-Augustine State Trail | 2117349 2117349
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| Palatka-Lake Butler State Trail | 1802107 1802107
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| Gainesville-Hawthorne State Trail | 2117060 2117060
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| Nature Coast State Trail | 2117070 2117070
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| Tallahassee-Saint Marks Historic Railroad State Trail | 2117079 2117079
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Local Trails
| Name | OSM ID | County | Notes |
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| West Orange Trail | 1804419 1804419
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Orange | |
| Chain of Lakes Trail | 2117055 2117055
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Polk | |
| Fort Fraser Trail | 1822301 1822301
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Polk | |
| Old Fort King Trail | 2128308 2128308
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Hillsborough | |
| South Lake Trail | 1804418 1804418
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Lake | |
| Orlando Urban Trail | 2094208 2094208
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Orange | |
| Cross Seminole Trail | 1804413 1804413
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Seminole | |
| Seminole Wekiva Trail | 1804417 1804417
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Seminole | |
| Depot Avenue Rails-to-Trails Bike Path | 2117056 2117056
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Alachua | |
| Suwannee River Greenway at Branford | 2117077 2117077
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Suwannee | |
| O'Leno to Ichetucknee Trail | 2117072 2117072
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Columbia | |
| Capital Circle Trail | 2117892 2117892
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Leon |
Protected Areas / Parks / Nature Reserves
Protected areas are mapped areas with specific protections established by a governing body, such as the federal or local government. Protected areas are typically mapped with the protected_area schema, as well as land use and amenity tags, such as park and nature reserves.
National Areas
Several national protected areas, e.g. national parks, have been mapped. A full review and catalog does not exist.
National Parks
There are 22 national park polygons in Florida on OpenStreetMap as of March 2016. According the National Park Service, there are only 11 national parks in Florida, thus some of these may need to be combined into multipolygons.
| Park | Park Type | OSM ID | Notes |
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| Big Cypress | National Preserve | 80516168 80516168
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| Biscayne | National Park | 160032399 160032399
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| Canaveral | National Seashore | 1201571 1201571
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Note on the Map, however the Merritt Island NWR may encompass parts of it. |
| Castillo De San Marcos | National Monument | 142083319 142083319
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| De Soto | National Memorial | 116594187 116594187
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| Dry Tortugas | National Park | 4437721 4437721
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| Everglades | National Park | 2163707 2163707
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| Fort Caroline | National Memorial | 358696045 358696045
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Needs mapping |
| Fort Matanzas | National Monument | 2000675 2000675
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| Gulf Islands | National Seashore | 6068104 6068104
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Recently connected all parts |
| Gullah/Geechee | Cultural Heritage Corridor | Not NPS operated | |
| Timucuan | Ecological and Historic Preserve | Does not appear to be mapped at all |
State Areas
Local Areas
Everglades Agricultural Area boundary is dated and needs replacement & updating. It was originally mapped by NE2 a few years back using levees as boundaries. A new proposal is underway to update this boundary.
Golf Courses
Scattered mapping of various quality.
Tourist Attractions
Scattered mapping of various quality. Florida's #1 economic engine - show me the attractions! The Disney World resort is of high quality, the expansions to The Magic Kingdom will be mapped as they open.
Lodging and Dining
Small amounts of scattered mapping.
Street Addresses
Virtually non-existant?
Power Network
Many developments have been made to the power network recently, especially in South Florida.
