Trails Stewardship Initiative

Trails Working Group Update

Jan 24, 2025 · Jake Low and Jasmina Sekanovich

OpenStreetMap Trail Mapping for Responsible Recreation

Dec 19, 2024 · Quincy Morgan and Jake Low

Description from americantrails.org: OpenStreetMap (OSM) is the free, crowdsourced map of the world. In recreation, OSM helps trail users decide where to go by powering apps like AllTrails, Gaia GPS, CalTopo, and...

Trails Stewardship Initiative Update: Tales from Utah Trails

Dec 12, 2024 · OpenStreetMap US Trails Working Group

The OpenStreetMap US Trails Stewardship Initiative (TSI) and the Trails Working Group were launched in 2021 – and it’s been a while since our last update! If you haven’t heard, the Trails...

The OpenStreetMap US Trails Stewardship Initiative

Aug 22, 2024 · Maggie Cawley

Description from americantrails.org: As hikers in the US have come to rely on mobile applications to navigate our public lands, visitors can be led to dangerous or environmentally sensitive areas when these...

Perspectives from the Trail: Land Management in the Era of Blue Dots

Jun 8, 2024 · Keri Nelson, Larry Velarde, and TJ Broom

Join us to hear from trail management experts as they discuss the challenges and opportunities arising from feature-rich map-centric apps on mobile devices. These apps have transformed how we interact with public...

OpenTrailMap

Jun 7, 2024 · Quincy Morgan

The Trails Stewardship Initiative is a project of OpenStreetMap US focused on improving OpenStreetMap trail data quality in support of responsible recreation. Pilot campaigns have shown the need to improve trail mapping...

OpenStreetMap US Trails Stewardship Initiative: Overview & Updates

Jun 7, 2024 · Maggie Cawley, Diane Fritz, and Jake Low

An overview session on the OSM US Trails Stewardship Initiative and Utah mapping campaign.

Perspectives from the Trail: Open Data & Responsible Recreation

Jun 7, 2024 · Pitt Grewe, Elizabeth McCartney, Brian Riordan, Kerry Shakarjian, and TJ Broom

This panel discussion explores the intersection of open data, trail mapping, and responsible recreation. We will discuss current successes, challenges, and opportunities related to trail data sources, interoperability, and the goal of...

Trails Stewardship Initiative Update

Jan 19, 2024 · Diane Fritz

Learn what’s new with the OpenStreetMap US Trails Stewardship Initiative.

OpenStreetMap US is now a 1% for the Planet Environmental Partner!

Nov 28, 2023 · OpenStreetMap US Staff

We are pleased to announce OpenStreetMap US has joined 1% for the Planet as an Environmental Partner! This partnership will advance our impact through the OpenStreetMap US Trails Stewardship Initiative by creating...

Launching the Utah Campaign: Improving 60,000+ Miles of Trails in OpenStreetMap

Oct 23, 2023 · OpenStreetMap US Trails Working Group

With the support of volunteers and land managers, the Trails Stewardship Initiative is launching our first statewide campaign aiming to update trail information on 60,000+ miles of trails in OpenStreetMap across Utah...

OpenStreetMap & Trails: New Collaborations for Responsible Recreation

Oct 17, 2023 · Maggie Cawley

This is the October 2023 entry in the quarterly webinar series from the National Trails System GIS Network. Learn about the Trails Stewardship Initiative with Maggie Cawley, Exective Director of OpenStreetMap US....

Celebrating National Public Lands Day

Sep 22, 2023 · OpenStreetMap US Staff

September 23, 2023 marks the 30th anniversary of National Public Lands Day. Organized by the National Environmental Education Foundation, National Public Lands Day seeks to connect people with their environment and encourage...

OpenStreetMap US Trails Stewardship Initiative

Jun 10, 2023 · Diane Fritz and Maggie Cawley

Hear about the work of the OSM US Trails Working Group and the plans for the Trails Stewardship Initiative. Round table will be held later in the day.

Trails Stewardship Initiative Update: Pilot & Next Steps

Feb 10, 2023 · OpenStreetMap US Trails Working Group

This blog post is an update on the OpenStreetMap US Trails Stewardship Initiative. For past news and additional information on this initiative, visit openstreetmap.us/trails. Background Public open spaces in the United States...

OpenStreetMap US Trails Initiative

Nov 11, 2022 · Jake Low and Diane Fritz

Jake Low & Diane Fritz provide an update on the Trails Stewardship Initiative at the OSM US annual conference Mapping USA.

OpenStreetMap & Trails: New Collaborations for Responsible Recreation

Aug 21, 2022 · Maggie Cawley

Sparked by concerns about OpenStreetMap’s role in how the public accesses and recreates on protected lands, OpenStreetMap US volunteers, navigation app developers, national agencies and public land managers formed the OpenStreetMap US...

The Trails Working Group is conducting a pilot tagging project!

May 17, 2022 · OpenStreetMap US Trails Working Group

Background You may have seen an announcement in a previous blog post about the existence of the OpenStreetMap US Trails Working Group. This growing collaboration of OSM mappers, land managers and navigational...

Maggie Cawley on the Nowhere Podcast

May 12, 2022 · Maggie Cawley and Jonathan Neufeld

Hear from Maggie Cawley, Executive Director of OpenStreetMap US, about her encounter with federal land managers who weren’t happy about traffic on their land and how her team developed a solution that benefitted the avid hikers and outdoor enthusiasts while protecting sensitive or conservation areas.

Sanctioned Trails, Social Trails, and Statistics

Apr 2, 2022 · Chad Blevins and Daniel Castro

In late 2021 the Trails Working Group was formed bringing together stakeholders to improve trail tagging throughout the US to reduce traffic on “social trails” or trails whose use is discouraged or...

Introduction to the U.S. Trails Working Group

Apr 1, 2022 · Diane Fritz

This talk is a quick overview of the concerns that led to the formation of the U.S. Trails Working Group (TWG), the structure of the group, and the topics the group is...

Unofficial Trails in OpenStreetMap in New York: Metrics & Analysis

Feb 25, 2022 · Kevin Kenny

In this presentation from the OSM US Trails Working Group, Kevin Kenny shares metrics & analysis of unofficial trails in New York mapped in OpenStreetMap. Formed in October 2021, Trails Working Group...

OpenStreetMap Tagging: A Crash Course

Feb 25, 2022 · Jake Low

In this presentation from the OSM US Trails Working Group, Jake Low provides an overview of the OpenStreetMap data structure and tagging standards. Formed in October 2021, Trails Working Group members will...

Announcing the OSM US Trails Working Group

Dec 22, 2021 · OpenStreetMap US Trails Working Group

In recent years, many more people have come to rely on mobile apps such as Gaia GPS, AllTrails, and CalTopo to navigate in the outdoors. Many of these apps display maps that...

Trails in OpenStreetMap

Sep 22, 2021 · Keri Nelson

OpenStreetMap US hosted a public discussion on the role of OSM trails data in protecting our national parks and helping to keep tourists on safe, well-maintained paths, with Keri Nelson, Backcountry Coordinator...

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