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mapping project.
Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, United States
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Canyon National Park
latitude:
36.3099
longitude:
-112.7835
Browse map of the Grand Canyon National Park
36°18′35.64″ N, 112°47′00.60″ W
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Grand Canyon National Park
is a national park in
Arizona
United States
at latitude 36°18′35.64″ North, longitude 112°47′00.60″ West.
Contents
Boundary
Roads and Tracks
Trails
3.1
Ways
3.2
Relations
3.3
Corridor Trails
3.4
Threshold trails
3.5
Primitive Trails
3.6
Routes/Wild
3.7
Above-rim trails
Manmade Features
Natural Features
5.1
Creeks
5.1.1
Tiger 2014
Wikipedia Integration
See also
External Links
8.1
Some examples of Grand Canyon rendering
Boundary
183377
183377
Roads and Tracks
Apart from the AZ 64 and many of the roads of the Grand Canyon Village, almost all of the forest service roads and other tracks have been unreviewed since the
Tiger
import in 2007. Many of the tracks are either mapped incorrectly or don't exist at all. A lot of work to be done here.
Sources of data include
Kaibab National Forest quad maps
Tiger 2012
and satellite imagery
Ground surveys of tracks that are open to the public.
Trails
The aim of this project is to map all of the official hiking trails listed in the
Wikipedia entry
Within the Grand Canyon, OSM data is already, I think, superior to other online maps in coverage and accuracy (Google is particularly poor here). There are a number of ways we can enhance the usefulness of OSM to mappers and hikers in the future;
Much greater use of
trail_visibility
=*
and
tracktype
=*
(or
surface
=*
) tags on ways
Using
sac_scale
=*
incline
=*
tags on
ways
, and
ascent
=*
descent
=*
on
relations
to indicate relative difficulties of the trails.
Upgrading the official trails to relations (nearly complete, see below)
Ways
Trails within the canyon itself are closed to bicyles and motorbikes, so the
ways
representing trails should be tagged;
highway
path
foot
designated
vehicle
no
highway
path
should be preferred over
highway
footway
See
Hiking
for possible tagging of hiking trails.
Relations
Ultimately we're aiming to represent all the trails as a set of
relations
. Currently the following tag schema is used for these relations;
name
(the full name of the trail)
ref
(a 3 to 5 letter short version of the name)
network
lwn
operator
United States National Park Service
route
hiking
type
route
Optional tags can be added for wikipedia or other web entries. See
Walking Routes
for further ideas on how to tag hiking relations.
Corridor Trails
Trail
Way/Relation
Notes
Bright Angel Trail
2836803
2836803
Complete
North Kaibab Trail
2836789
2836789
Complete
Plateau Point Trail
2837423
2837423
Complete
River Trail
2836804
2836804
Complete
South Kaibab Trail
2836796
2836796
Complete
Threshold trails
Trail
Way/Relation
Notes
Clear Creek Trail
2837455
2837455
Complete
Dripping Springs Trail
2836830
2836830
Complete
Grandview Trail
2837621
2837621
Complete
Hermit Trail
2836831
2836831
Complete
Thunder River Trail
2841711
2841711
Complete
Waldron Trail
2836832
2836832
Complete
Primitive Trails
Trail
Way/Relation
Notes
Beamer Trail
2836774
2836774
Complete
Bill Hall Trail
2841710
2841710
Complete
Boucher Trail
2836817
2836817
Complete
Deer Creek Trail
2856231
2856231
Complete
Havasu Canyon Route
8264406
8264406
Complete
Kanab Creek Trail
Lava Falls Trail
2844955
2844955
Complete
Nankoweap Trail
2837839
2837839
Complete
North Bass Trail
2845631
2845631
Complete
New Hance Trail (Red Canyon Trail)
2836717
2836717
Complete
South Bass Trail
2838553
2838553
Complete
South Canyon Trail
8090992
8090992
Complete. No gpx available for upper section from rim trailhead to Bedrock Canyon, traced from USGS maps.
Tanner Trail
2836727
2836727
Complete
Tonto Trail
2836546
2836546
Complete
Tuckup Trail
8255948
8255948
First section to Cave Canyon OK, rest is unclear
Routes/Wild
Trail
Way/Relation
Notes
Escalante Route
2836726
2836726
Complete
Esplanade Route
8098847
8098847
Complete - No GPX, USGS map trace only.
Royal Arch Route
2838517
2838517
Complete
Above-rim trails
Trail
Way/Relation
Notes
Bright Angel Point Trail
2845780
2845780
Complete
Cape Final Trail
2838401
2838401
Complete
Cape Royal Trail
2846327
2846327
Complete
Cliff Spring Trail
2846307
2846307
Complete
Francois Matthes Trail
8081383
8081383
Complete
Fire Point Trail
Ken Patrick Trail
2845734
2845734
Complete
Komo Point Trail
8081347
8081347
Complete
Point Imperial Trail
8096218
8096218
Complete
Rim Trail
2856431
2856431
Complete
Tiyo Point Trail
8194115
8194115
Complete
Transept Trail
2845788
2845788
Slightly unclear where the northern trailhead is (in the Transept campground), otherwise complete
Uncle Jim Trail
2841723
2841723
Complete
Walhalla Glades Trail
8106946
8106946
Complete - No GPX, USGS map trace only
Walhalla Spur Trail
8261972
8261972
Complete
Widforss Trail
2838417
2838417
Complete
Manmade Features
Water sources, emergency telephones, campgrounds, ranger stations, toilets, parking and trailheads. Also the buildings and facilities in the North Rim, Grand Canyon Village and Desert View.
Natural Features
Mountains, rivers, valleys, waterfalls, springs, minor canyons, rock formations and other points of natural interest.
Creeks
There is currently some discussion in the OSM community about the tagging of dry rivers, but until there's a consensus this project is using the following schema;
Dry creeks, washes, arroyos and other dry stream beds should be tagged;
waterway
river
or
waterway
stream
Though it's a moot point when applied to dry rivers, according to OSM guidelines a river becomes a stream if 'it can be jumped across by an active, able-bodied person', or roughly less than 2 meters in width.
intermittent
yes
seasonal
no
seasonal
no
applies to river beds that only flow during rare floods (classed as 'ephemeral' by the USGS). This would apply to the majority of dry creeks in the desert areas of Arizona.
Tiger 2014
The latest
Tiger 2014
data has a comprehensive and reasonably accurate set of line data for waterways in Coconino county which can be used as a guide for tracing creeks or imported directly. A few points;
Some of the data points are very dense - simplify ways with excessive nodes before uploading into OSM
There is naming information in the Tiger data (the FULLNAME tag), but this is incomplete, uses abbreviations (crk instead of creek) and sometimes incorrect. Check and correct all names against other sources, e.g. the USGS Topographic Maps layer in JOSM
There are still some errors in the Tiger data - at a minimum all new waterways should be visually checked against Bing imagery before uploading. In particular the direction of water flow is often incorrect.
Wikipedia Integration
To make the map more useful and expose it to a wider audience, any relevant object in the map should be linked to its corresponding Wikipedia article. Just add a
wikipedia
=*
tag to the node, way or relation and reference the relevant wikipedia article - use the URL for the article after the final forward slash. The
WIWOSM
preferred format is;
wikipedia
lang:article
For example, the
Bright Angel Trail
has a Wikipedia entry with the URL address
and the relevant tag is;
wikipedia
en:Bright_Angel_Trail
See also
US National Park Service Data
United States/National Park System
US National Park Service Tagging
External Links
Some examples of Grand Canyon rendering
4UMaps
WaymarkedTrails
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