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New Jersey, United States, North America
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latitude: 40.4072, longitude: -74.0341
Browse map of New Jersey 40°24′25.92″ N, 74°02′02.76″ W
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New Jersey is a state in United States, North America at latitude 40°24′25.92″ North, longitude 74°02′02.76″ West.

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Routes and Relations

Work is underway to create relations for the roadways, transit systems, bicycle paths and railroads (both freight and passenger) throughout the state. The /Railroads wiki has not yet begun, but it is in an early planning phase. (abandoned?)

Network values for New Jersey routes:

  • network=US:NJ for NJ state routes
  • network=US:NJ:NJTP for the New Jersey Turnpike
  • network=US:NJ:GSP for the Garden State Parkway
  • network=US:NJ:ACE for the Atlantic City Expressway

Places

Counties

Roads

TIGER

The TIGER import is finished, however there's still significant amount of cleanup left to be done. Review roads, realigning them and updating attributes as needed. Many track roads are incorrectly tagged with highway=residential, especially in the Pinelands, rural areas, and military bases. Replace with highway=track, and it's beneficial to add the tracktype=* too.

Junction and connectivity problems have mostly been fixed over the years.

Classifications

Note that, unless stated below, tags should not be applied simply based on the administrative level of the road.

  • Motorway Controlled access throughout; divided highway; no traffic lights or cross traffic, save for frontage roads. Should include all toll roads.
  • Trunk Generally controlled access (interchanges, flyovers, and jughandles), sometimes using traffic circles (e.g. NJ 38, NJ 70, NJ 23, NJ 208). Can be applied to a long two-lane route for at least 30 miles as long as it does not parallel a road built to higher standards (e.g. NJ 49, NJ 31, US 40, US 322, US 206). Freeway-grade portions may be designated as motorways if they meet all requirements.
  • Primary Well-traveled roads that run long distances through an urban area or between areas where a trunk road or motorway is not available. May parallel a motorway, but not a trunk road (e.g. US 9 south of Toms River, US 202 in Morris, Passaic, and Bergen Counties). Should include most 500-series county routes and select 600-series roads.
  • Secondary State, county, and municipal routes that serve as arterials or carry long distances, or form links between major roads.
  • Tertiary All other signed numbered roads and important municipal roads, but not any roads maintained by a homeowner's association, public institution, or business.
  • Residential All other complete public access roads.
  • Unclassified All public access road stubs and high-traffic roads maintained by a homeowner's association, public institution, or business.

Protected lands and state parks

The Protected Areas Database of the U.S. from the USGS provides protected area boundaries for the entire United States, but it can be downloaded as shapefiles by state. Click to download the NJ PAD-US data (warning, about 200 MB, but this is because the ZIP contains a few shapefiles.) The only one you need is "PADUS2_0Combined_DOD_Fee_Designation_Easement_NJ." The boundaries are often divided by roads. These should be removed as they just needlessly complicate the map. Also, consider removing very small exclaves and inner boundaries, especially if they are not verifiable on the ground.

State parks, forests, and recreation areas

Most should be tagged as a relation with these tags: (few exceptions)

Name Object Status
Abram S. Hewitt State Forest relation 8515545 OOjs UI icon check-constructive.svg
Allaire State Park relation 8293737 Boundary and tagging
Allamuchy Mountain State Park relation 144426 Boundary and tagging
Atsion Recreation Area <none> Red x.svg 
Barnegat Lighthouse State Park relation 10410758 OOjs UI icon check-constructive.svg
Bass River State Forest relation 11023115 OOjs UI icon check-constructive.svg
Belleplain State Forest relation 8512443 Boundary and tagging
Brendan T. Byrne State Forest relation 11018315 OOjs UI icon check-constructive.svg
Bull's Island Recreation Area way 447569655 Make relation; boundary and tagging
Cape May Point State Park relation 8294644 Boundary and tagging
Cheesequake State Park relation 8295233 Boundary and tagging
Corson's Inlet State Park relation 8294672 Boundary and tagging
Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park way 592762655 Make relation; boundary and tagging
Double Trouble State Park relation 11017653 OOjs UI icon check-constructive.svg
Farny State Park relation 8472096 Boundary and tagging
Fort Mott State Park relation 8296002 Fix relation, maybe replace park tag?
Hacklebarney State Park relation 8296053 Fix relation, boundary and tagging
High Point State Park relation 144422 OOjs UI icon check-constructive.svg
Hopatcong State Park relation 8294705 Fix relation, boundary and tagging
Island Beach State Park relation 8294644 OOjs UI icon check-constructive.svg
Jenny Jump State Forest relation 8526989 OOjs UI icon check-constructive.svg
Kittatinny Valley State Park relation 11015294 OOjs UI icon check-constructive.svg
Liberty State Park relation 8262630 OOjs UI icon check-constructive.svg (note: fits leisure=park tag)
Long Pond Ironworks State Park relation 8472098 OOjs UI icon check-constructive.svg
Monmouth Battlefield State Park relation 8479993 Fix boundary
Norvin Green State Forest relation 11012082 OOjs UI icon check-constructive.svg
Parvin State Park relation 8462857 Fix relation, boundary and tagging
Penn State Forest relation 6656823 OOjs UI icon check-constructive.svg
Princeton Battlefield State Park relation 7930158 Fix tagging
Ramapo Mountain State Forest relation 10928925 OOjs UI icon check-constructive.svg
Rancocas State Park relation 142402 Fix boundary and tagging
Ringwood State Park relation 10928924 OOjs UI icon check-constructive.svg
Round Valley Recreation Area <none> Red x.svg 
Spruce Run Recreation Area <none> Red x.svg 
Stephens State Park relation 8480024 Fix relation, boundary and tagging
Stokes State Forest relation 8512441 OOjs UI icon check-constructive.svg
Swartswood State Park relation 8479981 Fix boundary and tagging
Tall Pines State Preserve relation 11046166 OOjs UI icon check-constructive.svg
Voorhees State Park relation 8479989 Fix boundary and tagging
Warren Grove Recreation Area relation 9166608 Fix tagging
Washington Crossing State Park relation 8480008 Fix relation, boundary and tagging
Washington Rock State Park way 607566426 OOjs UI icon check-constructive.svg(note: fits leisure=park tag)
Wawayanda State Park relation 8481989 OOjs UI icon check-constructive.svg
Wharton State Forest relation 11020646 OOjs UI icon check-constructive.svg
Worthington State Forest relation 11014693 OOjs UI icon check-constructive.svg

Wildlife Management Areas

There are 122 Wildlife Management Areas in New Jersey. Currently, only a handful are mapped. Use the same tagging, except protect_class=4 and protection_title=Wildlife Management Area

List of New Jersey wildlife management areas on Wikipedia

Division of Fish and Wildlife website with all WMAs and maps

Power Network


Data Sources

Potential Data Sources provides a list of many layers, some of which could be imported into OSM.

Data sources for the State of New Jersey can be searched via NJGIN. Check the metadata to determine whether or not a data source is licensed appropriately for use in OpenStreetMap.

New Jersey Aerial Photography

Comparison between Potlatch and JOSM using the 2007 NJ aerials WMS. Click on the image for full size.

The State of New Jersey has statewide aerial photography available through a Web Map Service. There are no restrictions on its use. The most recent data available are from 2015. Even though this data covers the entire state with little temporal variation, aerial photography provided elsewhere is more up-to-date, so it should be used with caution.