[pct-l] PCT in Open Street Map

[Craig Stanton]

I think it's been 3 months since I started uploading. There were small parts there already but mostly it had been automatically converted from the forestry service maps and were not very accurate. Occasionally there were parts that must have had 1-second recording intervals because the track was noticeably smoother than mine which was every minute for the first hundred miles or so and then 10 seconds once I figured I wasn't going through battery power and memory cards as quick as I thought I would.


On 17/12/2010, at 7:35 PM, Eugene Leafty wrote:

> Have you been working on this for a while?  I noticed the PCT on OSM a
> couple weeks ago.  It was on the Mapsource file and also in the Garmin
> version I copied to my gps.  If that's you, then kudos.
> 
> I think OSM can be really useful.  Their maps seem a lot faster on my Garmin
> than the gpsfiledepot I had been using, and it has a lot more information.
> If I can figure out how to build my own Garmin map and add topo curves to
> it, it'd by my ideal map.  One thing I really love is that the maps are
> routable (good for driving), unlike my other maps.  I also want to add more
> data to the maps to make it more useful for hikers like us.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net]
> On Behalf Of Craig Stanton
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 5:56 PM
> To: PCT MailingList
> Subject: [pct-l] PCT in Open Street Map
> 
> Good afternoon all,
> 	Today I have put the finishing touches to a major project that I've
> going hard-out on since I heard about Open Street Map*. After removing all
> erroneous gps data (like where I wandered off trail, or sat down for a
> while) from my '07 hike I have converted it all to GPX files and uploaded
> them to OpenStreetMap.org. I then joined it up to intersecting trails,
> rivers, roads and whatever else was in the area and tagged (like marking the
> section names and which parts are bridges) the trail as best I could.
> Sometimes there was already a trail there, but mostly those were from the
> NFS maps and marked where the trail was planned for, but not where it ended
> up. 
> 
> You can see the summary page here (there would be a map in the top right but
> the PCT is so long it messes the server up)
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1225378/
> 
> Southern Terminus
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=32.58987&lon=-116.46612&zoom=17
> 
> Northern Terminus
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.000059&lon=-120.801075&zoom=18&layers=M
> 
> Here's an over all view of all correctly tagged trails in the US. It's
> currently missing the Washington Section L because I only just finished it.
> I expect it will have been included by the morning.
> http://osm.lonvia.de/world_hiking.html?zoom=5&lat=40.70331&lon=-98.88906&lay
> ers=FFBT
> 
> 
> I hope someone finds this useful, and that maybe you'll consider checking
> the maps around your area and making sure they are complete and accurate.
> 
> Craig/SunWalker/Heaps
> 
> 
> *Open Street Map is a repository for geo-data, mostly supplied by the
> general public. The data is free to use and edit. It's like Google Maps but
> more open.
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