California/Import
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Document imports in California here. Large imports should be added to the related pages too. Links are included at the bottom.
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Ongoing Imports
California Land Cover - Turning the state green
California Farms - Turning the state brown
National Hydrography Dataset - Part of the nationwide import for streams, rivers and water
San Francisco Address Import - Project to make San Francisco routable
To add
- Streams
- Land cover (agriculture, forests, etc.) Possibly doing region by region
Completed imports
Point Reyes Trail Map Import - User:Beej71 imported trails from national park data.
San Diego - San Diego has public domain data available at www.sangis.org. ageitgey imported several layers in 2009.
California/CASIL State Parks from CASIL
California/MROSD Open space preserves MROSD
California/SCVWD Watershed and most other water resources in most of Santa Clara county SCVWD
Broken imports
missing info and cleanup required
county borders: unknown source of questionable accuracy. doesn't align with USGS topo and CASIL county borders
city border: based on Tiger data. quality is bad and doesn't align with USGS topo and CASIL county borders
both imports happened before API v0.6 and contain ways with too many nodes. They can't be modified anymore and have to be split in smaller ways first.
Datasets
Links to some possible GIS data sources covering California. Please check copyright before using this data. Data created by the state is in public domain but some data is from different sources.
- CalFire has a set of landcover layers that can be imported. The website says they may be distributed in any manner but a credit must be given. See California_Land_Cover.
- TIGER 2009 In addition to roads, Tiger also includes area polygons, water polygons and points of interest for each county.
- County areas added
- Alameda, Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Contra Costa, Del Norte, El Dorado, Fresno, Glenn, Humbolt, Imperial, Inyo Kern, King, Lake, Lassen, Madera, Marin, Mendocino, Mariposa, Merced, Modoc, Monterey, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Riverside, Sacramento, Santa Barbara, San Benito, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Shasta, Sieera, Siskiyou, Solano, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Tulare, Tuolumne, Ventura, Yolo, Yuba
- County water added
- Alameda, Contra Costa, Monterey, Merced, San Benito, Santa Clara
- County points added
- Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara
- State area added
- Military areas
- CASIL download portal Collection of various data sets including county borders, state parks, opens space, tiger road and trains, ...
- atlas.ca.gov Different portal with same data as CASIL
- openspace.org Bay area open space operated by openspace.org downloads contain boundaries, trails, parking lots,... MROSD has given explicit permission to upload open areas and trails. closed areas should be excluded.
- calands.org It is basically a database of every single park at any level, city, county, state etc. in California. It also includes blm, open space and more. The data is owned by Green Info, based out of San Francisco. Larry Orman larry@greeninfo.org is the contact person. He wants to meet with someone from OSM to discuss importing the data. We need to make contact with him to get permission to use the data and see what requirements there are.
Update: Green info is in the process to verify the license terms of OSM data. They are also interested in feedback, corrections and have started a project to add trails from osm into their own database. Contact osm user user:srmixter or user:Apo42 if you are interested in this project.
- LA County Assessor Parcel Viewer Scans of Los Angeles County assessor maps. Maps contain references to "MB nnnn ppp-ppp", which can then be used to get tract maps at LA County Land Records Tract Maps, or references to "PM nnn ppp-ppp", which can be used to get parcel maps at LA County Land Records Parcel Maps. Both are useful for correcting and adding missing street names, boundaries, etc. These are all scans, so import is unlikely, but they are a great official resource when dealing with conflicting information or new development areas. Tag with source_ref=ABKnnnn-sss;{TRtttt-ppp|PMmmm-ppp} and "source=LACA;LACDPW" to document (nnnn-sss is the Assessor's map book and sheet number, tttt-ppp is the tract map book and page number (MB) or mmm-ppp is the parcel map book and page number (PM)).
Copyright
Some info on copyright status in California
http://www.ca.gov/use.html#ownership
Background info from a 2009 court decision
http://gis.lacounty.gov/eGIS/?p=696
http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/H031658.PDF
County status
Counties that have granted use of their shapefile gis data and imports added. Add any imports completed and projects you are working on here. Also feel free to add other counties that specifically let their data be used.
- Fresno County - public site or https://transfer.co.fresno.ca.us/4360/Public, County has provided ftp login. (zoning, parcels, streets).
- Note: the parcel data has exact data for each parcel, including the type i.e. residential, commercial and farm - even down to the type of crop grown. The shapefile breaks down into more than 100 osm files. srmixter.
- Fresno and Clovis parks done - srmixter
- Humbolt - http://co.humboldt.ca.us/planning/maps/datainventory/gisdatalist.asp (parcels, land information, zoning, roads, boundaries, etc.)
- Kern - http://www.co.kern.ca.us/gis/downloads.asp (crops, fire and sheriff stations, zoning, general plans, parcels, etc - srmixter
- Mono - ftp.mono.ca.gov\Data, available by ftp or site
- building footprints, golf courses, golf paths, general paths, bus stops, campsites, locations added - srmixter
- Napa - http://gis.napa.ca.gov/giscatalog/catalog.asp
- farms, waters, bridges, police added - srmixter
- county still has TIGER data that is not cleaned up. Some of the farms still need hand editing.
- Sacramento - http://www.sacgis.org/default.aspx (airports, buses, general plan, land use, communities, etc.)
- San Diego - see SanGIS
- Buildings added - ageitgey
- Santa Cruz - http://gis.co.santa-cruz.ca.us/GIS/File_Download_Site (agriculture, roads, zones, etc.)
- Streams done - DanHomerick
- Zones done -srmixter. See the Santa Cruz County progress page for more info.
- Stanislaus -http://gis.stancounty.com/giscentral/public/map (canals, creeks, zoning, parcels etc.)
- Zone file added - srmixter. Only includes generic county stuff and not in cities.
Info for other global imports and resources
WikiProject_United_States/Resources
