{"id":18435,"date":"2016-04-10T09:39:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T13:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=18435"},"modified":"2020-12-27T10:08:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T15:08:46","slug":"trailforks-pinkbike-and-osm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2016\/04\/10\/trailforks-pinkbike-and-osm\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailforks, Pinkbike, and OSM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/computers\/screenshots\/Screen+Shot+2016-04-10+at+9_15_29+AM.png.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Stony Creek area in Trailforks after their initial use of an OpenStreetMap-based MTB route basemap.\" src=\"\/gallery\/d\/110057-2\/Screen+Shot+2016-04-10+at+9_15_29+AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For years I&#8217;ve been pretty enthusiastic about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OpenStreetMap\">OpenStreetMap<\/a>\u00a0(OSM) and using it to map trails (MTB and otherwise). While there are a bunch of other ways to map trails online (<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\">Google Maps<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtbproject.com\/\">MTB Project<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trailforks.com\/\">Trailforks<\/a>)\u00a0I have stayed away from contributing to them because of the one-way nature of submissions; your contributed data gets locked behind their license. While\u00a0<em>MTB Project<\/em> and <em>Trailfork<\/em>s both claim to allow some manner of reuse of data, it&#8217;s nothing as useful as <em>OSM<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/\">Creative Commons<\/a>\u00a0(CC) based licensing. Effectively being the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/\">Wikipedia<\/a>\u00a0of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geographic_information_system\">GIS<\/a>\u00a0makes it extremely useful for those of us who want to\u00a0both contribute data and build open maps on the larger set.<\/p>\n<p>Then suddenly last night I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinkbike.com\/news\/trailforks-custom-basemap.html\">this article on Pinkbike<\/a>\u00a0discussing how they took <em>OSM<\/em> data, parsed it to highlight mountain biking routes, and are now using it as the base map for their <em>Trailforks<\/em> mapping site. They built a tool on top of the open data and made something great.<\/p>\n<p>This is really, truly excellent.<\/p>\n<p>This sort of reuse of public, open data in OSM is the exact reason why I contribute to it. The folks at <em>Pinkbike<\/em> \/ <em>Trailforks<\/em> have taken a useful set of data from all over the world, processed it, and made something good. This would not have been possible with the data locked up in <em>Google<\/em>, <em>MTB Project<\/em>, or even the stuff contributed directly to <em>Trailforks<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to where this&#8217;ll go. The <em>Pinkbike<\/em> article mentions that they&#8217;ll be\u00a0reimporting the data a little different in the future, and talks about how they are going to\u00a0have another article about tagging to better support <em>Trailforks<\/em>. While <em>OSM<\/em> has some minimal standards for MTB tagging (eg: <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.openstreetmap.org\/wiki\/Key:mtb:scale:imba\">mtb:scale:imba<\/a>) I look forward to a bit more de-facto standard around this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years I&#8217;ve been pretty enthusiastic about OpenStreetMap\u00a0(OSM) and using it to map trails (MTB and otherwise). While there are a bunch of other ways&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2016\/04\/10\/trailforks-pinkbike-and-osm\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trailforks, Pinkbike, and OSM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,57,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-mapping","category-outdoors","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18436,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18435\/revisions\/18436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}