Washington DC

Washington DC, United States

Latitude : 38.8951, Longitude : -77.0364

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Washington DC is a Capital in United States at latitude 38.8951, longitude -77.0364. Through MappingDC, local volunteers are running mapping parties, working with local governments to import data, and collaborating with local enthusiast groups to raise awareness and utilization of OpenStreetMap in and around the DC metro area.

Join us at a Mapping Party, join the mailing list, or come to one of our meetings to find out more.

Contents 1 Meet-ups 2 Mapping Parties 2.1 Upcoming Mapping Parties! 2.2 Previous Mapping Parties 3 WMS imagery 4 Local areas 4.1 DC 4.2 Maryland 4.3 Virginia 4.4 Bike/Ped Trails 4.5 Transit / metro 5 Data Sets 6 Other Objectives 7 Mapping objectives

Meet-ups

Hell Burger September 1st, 2011 7:00pm

Ivansanchez is in town for the first step on the [1] road trip. Come join us in burgers and map talk!

Add your name below if you are attending:

• Ivansanchez
• Wonderchook

Mapping Parties

Mapping parties are events where anyone can come along and join in improving the free world map of everything. We show you how to collect data (survey) and get the data in to OpenStreetMap. Once you put the data in to OpenStreetMap you or anybody around the world, can use the map in interesting and creative ways.

Bring your GPS and laptop to participate fully, or borrow a GPS from us. We'll have a few to loan.

It's fun. It's Free. You can help.

Events are being regularly organized on the mappingdc mailing list

Upcoming Mapping Parties!

• Plan a mapping party!

Previous Mapping Parties

• 01 - 02 November, 2008
• June 20, 2009 HacDC, 1525 Newton St NW, Washington DC 20010
• Silver Spring, Marlyand on August, 8, 2009 - 10AM at Mayorga Coffee Factory
• National Zoo - September 12, 2009
• National Mall - January 10, 2010
• Manassas Battlefield Park - June 2010
• December 14, 2010 : 7pm at the Capital City Brewing Company
• September 3, 2011 - Chinatown / Penn Quarter; meet at Martin Luther King Jr. DC Public Library, 11 am (until ~3 pm)

WMS imagery

USGS High Resolution Orthoimagery is available as a WMS service. The imagery is ~15 cm resolution, making it more detailed than the Yahoo! imagery in Potlatch. To use the USGS WMS imagery, you can use JOSM with the WMS plugin enabled. With the imagery, it's easy to add details including individual houses (not just draw rectangles, but possible to put more detail, if you wish).

For the District of Columbia:

http://imsortho.cr.usgs.gov:80/wmsconnector/com.esri.wms.Esrimap/USGS_EDC_Ortho_DistrictOfColumbia?service=WMS&version=1.1.1&request=getmap&width=500&height=500&format=image/png&SRS=EPSG:4326&layers=WashingtonDC_0.16m_CNIR_Mar_2008&

For Montgomery County:

http://imsortho.cr.usgs.gov:80/wmsconnector/com.esri.wms.Esrimap/USGS_EDC_Ortho_Maryland?service=WMS&version=1.1.1&request=getmap&width=500&height=500&format=image/png&SRS=EPSG:4326&layers=MD_MontgomeryCounty_0.5ft_Color_Feb_2008_01&

http://imsortho.cr.usgs.gov:80/wmsconnector/com.esri.wms.Esrimap/USGS_EDC_Ortho_Maryland?service=WMS&version=1.1.1&request=getmap&width=500&height=500&format=image/png&SRS=EPSG:4326&layers=MD_MontgomeryCounty_0.5ft_Color_Feb_2008_02&

For Prince George's County:

http://imsortho.cr.usgs.gov:80/wmsconnector/com.esri.wms.Esrimap/USGS_EDC_Ortho_Maryland?service=WMS&version=1.1.1&request=getmap&width=500&height=500&format=image/png&SRS=EPSG:4326&layers=MD_PrinceGeorgesCounty_0.5ft_Color_Mar_2007_01&

http://imsortho.cr.usgs.gov:80/wmsconnector/com.esri.wms.Esrimap/USGS_EDC_Ortho_Maryland?service=WMS&version=1.1.1&request=getmap&width=500&height=500&format=image/png&SRS=EPSG:4326&layers=MD_PrinceGeorgesCounty_0.5ft_Color_Mar_2007_02&

For Alexandria:

http://imsortho.cr.usgs.gov:80/wmsconnector/com.esri.wms.Esrimap/USGS_EDC_Ortho_Virginia?service=WMS&version=1.1.1&request=getmap&width=500&height=500&format=image/png&SRS=EPSG:4326&layers=AlexandriaEastVA_0.16m_Color_Aug_2008&

For other parts of Northern Virginia:

http://imsortho.cr.usgs.gov:80/wmsconnector/com.esri.wms.Esrimap/USGS_EDC_Ortho_Virginia?service=WMS&version=1.1.1&request=getmap&width=500&height=500&format=image/png&SRS=EPSG:4326&layers=NorthernVA_0.5m_Color_Oct_2008&

For more WMS links:

• http://russnelson.com/osm/seamless/Virginia.wms
• http://russnelson.com/osm/seamless/Maryland.wms

If you know of other public domain or license-compatible imagery sources, please add them.

Local areas

Sign up to indicate which neighborhoods or areas you're interested in helping map. You can either map individually or get a group together to work in teams. Once there are about 4 or more people, then setup a time and day and meetup to map the neighborhood.

DC

Note: We are importing GIS data from the DC government. You can help with that or fill in additional details like building names, shops, walking paths & trails, ...

Area	Mapping Party	Progress	Completed?	Interested
National Mall and parks
Columbia Heights				Robert Soden
Dupont Circle
Georgetown				--filbertkm (talk)

Maryland

Area	Mapping Party	Progress	Completed?	Interested
Silver Spring	8/8/09 Meeting at Mayorga Coffee Factory			Brian DeRocher, Katie Bechtold, Kate Chapman, Andrew Turner, --filbertkm (talk)

Virginia

Area	Mapping Party	Progress	Completed?	Interested
Arlington (general?)				Andrew Turner, --filbertkm (talk), Kate Chapman, Steven Johnson
Arlington Cemetery		95% done		--filbertkm (talk)
Fort Myer	Source: http://www.fmmc.army.mil/inc/myermapFEB09.pdf			--filbertkm (talk)
Arlington - South
Arlington - Pentagon City / Crystal City
Arlington - Rosslyn		Mapping party in Nov 2009
Fairfax County				Josh Doe

Bike/Ped Trails

		%age complete
Trail System	State	Tracks	Mapped	Labelled	Traces	Users
Rock Creek Park	District of Columbia	50%	40%	40%	Rock Creek	James_Hiebert

• BBBike @ Washington D.C. - a cycle route planner for Washington D.C.

Transit / metro

Note: WMATA will be putting out open data sets, beginning in August 2010 and eventually to include bus stops locations and route information. We are discussing with them the license requirements and terms of use that OpenStreetMap needs in order to be able to use their data.

Area	Mapping Party	Progress	Completed?	Interested
Washington Metro

Data Sets

The local municipalities all have high quality data. We are reaching out to them to get permission to use their data. Add municipalities, points of contact, and your username if you want to take the lead on contacting the GIS departments.

		progress
Municipality	Contact	Ok to Use	Imported	Responsible
DC	@kachok	Yes	Ongoing (see DC/GIS)	Kate Chapman
Arlington				Andrew Turner
Silver Spring				Serge, Tim White
Alexandria	gishelp@alexandriava.gov	yes, see municipality page		Brian DeRocher

Other Objectives

Other projects to work on besides strictly getting data.

• Education Outreach
  • OSM in local education
  • NOVA GIS Certificate
• Development Projects
  • GeoChat
  • Customize Styling for Transit & DC Issues

Mapping objectives

Please use the DC talk page to suggest items to add to the map.

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