Georgia (U.S. state)

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Georgia (U.S. state), United States

Latitude : 32.96, Longitude : -83.31

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Georgia (U.S. state) is a state in United States at latitude 32.96, longitude -83.31.

Events

There was a massive three day mapping event: Atlanta Citywide Mapathon in October 2009.

FOX News Atlanta TV report!

Since then the mapping community here continue to make progress. Contact the OpenStreetMap community if you need help with learning how to edit the map to input your data.

Other mapping parties?

If you would like to organize a neighborhood Mapping Party in your community, go ahead and do it! Feel free to contact Thea Clay who is on hand to give help or advice.

Please visit the Events page for a complete listing of all OSM events worldwide.

Tagging Guidelines for Georgia

Highway Classification

It is recommended that the Highway Functional Classification System maps created by GADOT be utilized so that there is consistent classification of roads across the state.
Further information:Highway Functional Classification System
Further information:Key:highway
Further information:United States roads tagging

Key	Value	HFCS Value	Description	Examples
highway	motorway	Rural Interstates Urban Interstates Other Freeways & Expressways	Interstate highways, including loops and spurs; significant portions of US and state routes built to Interstate standards (high-speed, fully access-controlled).	I 75 I 285 GA 400 GA 166/Lakewood Freeway
	trunk	Rural Principal Arterials excluding Interstates	Selected U.S. and state routes not built to Interstate standards. High-speed highways, sometimes divided with limited-access. May have occasional traffic lights and unlit street-level crossings.	GA 316 GA 400 north of Cumming GA 540/Fall Line Freeway US 441 in Morgan County
	primary	Rural Minor Arterial Road Urban Principle Arterials excluding Interstates and Other Freeways & Expressways	Major U.S. and state routes, such as those that link cities and larger towns and other traffic generators, such as major resort areas, that are capable of attracting travel over similarly long distances and form an integrated network providing interstate and intercounty service. These routes have relatively high overall travel speeds and minimum interference to through traffic. In urban areas, these highways serve the major traffic movements connecting central business districts, outlying residential areas, major intercity communities, and major suburban centers. They serve a major portion of the trips entering and leaving the urban area, as well as the majority of the through traffic desiring to bypass the central city.	US 78 in Atlanta GA 166 in western Douglas and eastern Carroll Counties
	secondary	Rural Major Collector Roads Urban Minor Arterial Streets	Other U.S. and state routes, major county and city streets; Serve trips of moderate length at a somewhat lower level of travel mobility than principal arterials (primary highways). Provide access to geographic areas smaller than those served by the higher system. Provide intracommunity continuity but do not penetrate identifiable neighborhoods. In a rural setting, these roads provide service to any county seat not on an arterial route, to the larger towns not directly served by the higher systems, and to other traffic generators of equivalent intracounty importance, such as consolidated schools, shipping points, county parks, important mining and agricultural areas, etc, and link these places with nearby larger towns or cities, or with routes of higher classification. They serve the more important intracounty travel.	10th Street 14th Street Auburn Ave Edgewood Ave, in Atlanta Austell Rd. US 41 in Cobb County Braswell Mountain Rd in north Paulding County
	tertiary	Rural Minor Collector Roads Urban Collector Streets	County, city routes, and other major local roads. These collect traffic from local streets in residential neighborhoods and channels it into the arterial system. Provide both land access service and traffic circulation within commercial areas, industrial areas, and residential neighborhoods. Provide service to remaining smaller rural communities.	Simpson Rd Highland Ave in Atlanta Hog Mountain Rd. in Oconee County
	unclassified	Rural Local Roads	Rural or non residential roads, serve primarily to provide access to adjacent land with little to no value as through routes.
	residential	Urban Local Streets	City/neighborhood streets not qualifying as tertiary or higher, or rural roads which have become lined with houses. Provide direct access to land and to higher road systems. Through traffic usage is discouraged.

Avoid upgrading and downgrading roads over short distances (a few miles) where they may leave and enter an urban area. However, roads can and do change class type as they enter or leave urban and rural areas or intersect with other roads.

Ref

Further information:United_States_roads_tagging

Key	Value	Description	Examples
ref	I ##	Interstate highways.	I 75 I 285
	US ##	US highways.	US 441
	SR ## GA ## US:GA ##	State routes. The shorter forms are more likely to be rendered in Mapnik. While the US:GA form is specific, it doesn't look great on maps or in directions, and that specificity can also be accomplished using route relations.	GA 400

Max Speed

Further information:Key:maxspeed

mph to km/h conversion table
mph	5	10	15	20	25	30	35	40	45	50	55	60	65	70	75	80
=km/h	8.046	16.093	24.140	32.187	40.234	48.280	56.327	64.374	72.420	80.467	88.514	96.561	104.607	112.654	120.700	128.748
~km/h	8	16	24	32	40	48	56	64	72	80	88	96	104	112	120	128

Tag what you see the actual speed limit is on the road and not a guess based on the road type. Values are assumed to be in kilometres per hour (km/h) unless units are explicit. E.g. a speed limit of 30 miles per hour should be tagged as "30 mph".

Relations

Route Relations

Further information:Relation:route

Interstate Highways

Main article: Interstate Highways Relations

U.S. Routes

Main article: United States Numbered Highway Relations

Appalachian Development Highways

Main article: United_States_Numbered_Highway_Relations#Appalachian_Development_Highways

Forest Routes

Main article: wikipedia:Forest_highway

State Routes

Main article: Georgia_(U.S._state)/State_Highway_Relations

Subway/Railway Routes

Further information:Relation:route#Railway_routes_.28light_rail.2C_metro.2C_mainline.2C_monorail_etc.29

Main article: Georgia_(U.S._state)/Railway_Route_Relations

U.S. Bike Routes

Further information:Relation:route#Cycle_routes_.28also_mountain_bike.29

Main article: wikipedia:United States Numbered Bicycle Routes

Main article: WikiProject_U.S._Bicycle_Route_System

State Bike Routes

Further information:Relation:route#Cycle_routes_.28also_mountain_bike.29

Main article: Georgia_(U.S._state)/Bicycle_Route_Relations

State/City Bus Routes

Further information:Relation:route#Bus_Routes_.28also_trolley_bus.29

Main article: Georgia_(U.S._state)/Bus_Route_Relations

Hiking/Walking Routes

Further information:Relation:route#Walking_routes_.28also_hiking_and_pilgimage.29

Main article: Georgia_(U.S._state)/Hiking_Route_Relations

e.g. wikipedia:Appalachian_Trail, wikipedia:Bartram_Trail, wikipedia:National_Trails_System

Boundary Relations

Further information:Relation:boundary

Counties

Main article: Georgia_(U.S._state)/County_Boundary_Relations

Cities

Main article: Georgia_(U.S._state)/City_Boundary_Relations

Land Use

Land Use data for Georgia from the USGS Land Use / Land Cover dataset [1] has been uploaded to the OSM server. The data has some deficiencies: it is dated, of limited resolution and, in some places, is offset from reality. It can also be awkward to edit. Feel free to delete it in your area and add land use data from scratch if that is easier to do. In metro Atlanta the ARC LandPro08 dataset has replaced the LULC dataset.

Data Sources

A number of Potential Datasources exist for Georgia.

Tiger

Most of the road data in Georgia was uploaded through the Tiger upload process in 200?. For some counties, the TIGER 2007 and TIGER 2008 data is better and can replace the older data. For all counties, address information can be uploaded. For information on the status of the update see: Georgia Tiger Update.

To Do

All relations.
Connect roads/railways/utilities at county boundaries.
Classify roads
Add key:ref to US/state roads.
Remove duplicate roads that run along county boundaries.
Fix the Chattahoochee river. Currently broken south of columbus
Import relevant datasets from GIS Clearinghouse (eg state/fed parks).

Cities in Georgia

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Fayetteville, Georgia (U.S. state)

Latitude : 33.4502, Longitude : -84.4536

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