Louisiana

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Louisiana, United States

latitude: 31.5, longitude: -92

Browse map of Louisiana 31°30′00.00″ N, 92°00′00.00″ W

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Louisiana is a state in the United States at latitude 31°30′00.00″ North, longitude 92°00′00.00″ West.

Cities

• Alexandria
• Baton Rouge
• Lafayette
• Lake Charles
• Monroe
• New Orleans
• Shreveport

Parishes

There are 64 Parishes in Louisiana, with wildly varying levels of completeness.

Active mappers and coordination

• 
   A Flappy Civic – Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Ascension Parish
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   AnonymousAlligator (on OSM · edits · contribs · heatmap · comments) – Jefferson Parish
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   Apathetic_Engineer (on OSM · edits · contribs · heatmap · comments) – Calcasieu Parish
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   Asa Foreman (on OSM · edits · contribs · heatmap · comments) – Moss Bluff, Westlake, Calcasieu Parish
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   Benjamin Eunice (on OSM · edits · contribs · heatmap · comments) – Livingston Parish, Denham Springs, Baton Rouge, Ruston, Lincoln Parish
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   Clairness (on OSM · edits · contribs · heatmap · comments) – Calcasieu Parish
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   JoeMapsTheWorld (on OSM · edits · contribs · heatmap · comments) – Shreveport
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   JuanElDemografo (on OSM · edits · contribs · heatmap · comments) – Sulphur, Ruston, Calcasieu Parish
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   Matt Toups (on OSM · edits · contribs · heatmap · comments) – New Orleans, Bike routes
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   Minh Nguyễn (on OSM · edits · contribs · heatmap · comments) – New Orleans East and Westbank

Louisiana is part of the OpenStreetMap Deep South mapping community. The most active place of discussion is on the Discord server in the Louisiana channel.

Tagging suggestions for Louisiana

Highways and Roads

See Louisiana/Highway Classification for standards and documentation regarding highway classification within Louisiana. The state has designated many of its routes with memorial names. These should be recorded under official_name=* as they are rarely signed.

Routes

Tagging conventions are kept at United States roads tagging/Routes#Louisiana. Some parish roads were tagged with network=US:LA:PR:<parish>. This was never fully adopted, and the more standard tagging scheme network=US:LA:<parish> is now recommended for parishes with numbered road networks.

Tables of Interstate Highways Relations and United States Numbered Highway Relations‎ are kept on the national pages without duplication here. See Louisiana/Route Relations for the table of state route relations.

State Parks

Most state parks in Louisiana can be mapped with the following tags:

• type=boundary
• boundary=protected_area
• protected_area=recreation
• protect_class=5 for state parks (may differ for other protected areas.)
• protection_title=State Park / State Forest / State Preserve / Recreation Area
• protected=perpetuity
• name=*
• name:fr=*
• name:frc=*
• leisure=nature_reserve
• ownership=state
• operator=Louisiana Office of State Parks
• operator:type=government
• operator:wikidata=Q109319012
• wikipedia=*
• wikidata=*
• website=*

Wikipedia has a list of current and former state parks. The Louisiana State Parks website also has a list of parks and historical sites.

State Park	ID	Status
Bayou Segnette	119486789 119486789
Bogue Chitto	38476790 38476790
Chemin-A-Haut	38476787 38476787
Chicot	18171803 18171803
Cypremort Point	543775784 543775784
Fairview-Riverside	18171792 18171792
Fontainbleau	18640548 18640548
Grand Isle	4482793 4482793
Jimmie Davis	18147915 18147915
Lake Bistineau	19138423 19138423
Lake Bruin	358368419 358368419
Lake Claiborne	12599450 12599450
Lake D'Arbonne	17902209 17902209
Lake Fausse Pointe	630031611 630031611
North Toledo Bend	12599441 12599441
Palmetto Island	382619585 382619585
Poverty Point Reservoir	9168531945 9168531945
Saint Bernard	911312906 911312906
Sam Houston Jones	12599420 12599420
South Toledo Bend	12603775 12603775
Tickfaw	17500506 17500506

Possible Data Sources

The Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator's Office's (!) offers a large set of GIS data here: http://lagic.lsu.edu/loscoweb/showall.asp

They even have maps of No, Rare, Occasional, and Frequent Bear sightings!

GNIS Sites

Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a collection of names and data for locations and natural features. Keep in mind that the GNIS' map only provides a general location of a place or feature and may not be accurate. Some places are also abandoned or non-existent and may have "(historical)" next to a name.

Addresses

These sources are provided by the local government or an open data map.

• East Baton Rouge Parish
• West Feliciana Parish

Rivers, streams, and major drainage ditches

LA DOT's Flowline Map provides the name and general path of water ways.

Highway Classification

LA DOT's Functional System Map provides a color coded map of highway classification in Louisiana.