US National Park Service Data

It has been proposed that this page or section be merged with United States/National Park System. (Discuss)

Part of United States mapping project.

Many national parks have GIS data available for download through the National Park Service Data Store or the NPS open data hub. While checking the license of available GIS data is always appropriate, US Government works are in the public domain. There are some files very relevant to OSM (trails and roads; recreation points listing campsites, docks etc) and some not so useful to the normal OSM reader (wildlife habitats).

National Parks

Tagging

• boundary=national_park
• boundary=protected_area
• protect_class=2
• protection_title=National Park
• ownership=national
• operator=United States National Park Service
• protected=perpetuity

National Park Trails

See the Hiking page for general tags related to hiking trails.

Proposed specific tags:

• route_owner = national_park, private_on_nps, private_noton_nps, county, state, city_town
• route_no
• trail_no

See Also:

• Walking_Routes
• Relation:route

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

• Status: Park is reviewing upgrade of all GIS data, plan to bulk import upon public release --tpcolson 09 March 2013

Olympic National Park

See: Olympic National Park

• Website: NPS Data Store
• Trails: [1]
• Status: Trails upload in progress --Tylerritchie 20:38, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Grand Teton National Park

• Currently working on roads from this dataset. There is no way to tell the road designation that I can see, so I am uploading everything with highway=road and planning on manually fixing/combining with the (untouched) TIGER data. Alexrudd

Tagging scheme

NPS	OSM	Notes
Name	name=<value>	Just changed the tag case
Access	access=<value>	Closed(0), Admin.(1), or Private(2) -> access:private. Public (3) left alone
Surface	surface=<value>	Natural(0)->ground, Gravel(1)->gravel, Asphalt(2)->paved, Concrete->paved(3), Chip Seal(4)->chip_seal??
Route(1,2,3)	relations	Kept for now, use later to add to proper relations
Class	tracktype=<value>	Class type: Heavy Duty(0)->grade1, Medium Duty(1)->grade2, Light Duty(2)->grade3, Unimproved dirt(3)->grade4
OBJECTID	nhs:teton=OBJECTID	Sequential identifier within the shapefile
Horiz_Prec	<deleted>	Horizontal precision
Base_Statn	<deleted>	Differential Base Station Used
Max_PDOP	<deleted>	Maximum Positional Delusion of Precision
Map_Method	<deleted>	Method used by NPS to digitize data
RIP_Num	<deleted>	Roadway Inventory Program Number
ROS_Class	<deleted>	Recreational Opportunity Spectrum Class
Rcvr_type	<deleted>	Specific type of GPS receiver used to collect the data
Shape_Leng	<deleted>	Automatically generated length of way
Src_Date	<deleted>	Source date
Map_Source	<deleted>	Map source

See also

• US Fish and Wildlife Service Data
• US Forest Service Data