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DC park boundary updates #87

Closed makella closed 8 years ago

makella commented 9 years ago

From @johnpauls

1) This is from the Suitland Parkway which heads east out of Washington DC. image

There is a label there "National Capital Parks" which should either be Suitland Parkway or National Capital Parks East. I don't think there is anything that is called National Capital Parks.

2) There are many overlapping boundaries at this unit, such as

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and

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3) The boundary seems shifted for Jones Point Park, part of George Washington Memmorial Parkway in VA, across the river from Oxon Cove Park in MD. It looks like the lighthouse in not in the park.

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4) Label for Lincoln Memorial is far from the building image

At zoom level 14, the Korean War Veterans Memorial label is right on the Lincoln Memorial.

That is what I have for now, but I am not sure that everything that should be labeled in DC is, as there are lots of small sites, some of which are "official" parks, and some are not, and I have to check to see which are which.

johnpauls commented 9 years ago

An update - the place marked as "National Capital Parks' should be Suitland Parkway.

makella commented 9 years ago

more on boundaries from @johnpauls:

@nateirwin Here are a couple of examples.

Here is Piscataway Park in Maryland from our GIS (may not be the most current data):

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Green is NPS owned, the areas in yellow are mostly private homes with a scenic easement and a few farms. Large parts of the are consists of private homes on wooded lots. Here it is from Parktiles 3 link above:

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Currently, the park appears to be one large natural area, are all the local roads and private homes are hidden. Also,there are road segments that go nowhere as only the parts on NPS owned land are displayed. Note also River Road on the far west side. If you zoom in you see: image

There is a double polygon, but also the road does not match up inside vs. outside the park.

Here in Antietam, also in Maryland on our GIS: image

Again green is NPS, yellow is easement, white w/red outline is private with no easement.

Here is the same view from ParkTiles image

In this case, as much of the NPS owned part of the battlefield is in agriculture (crops, soybeans) with historic farm houses on the land. The private land is also agriculture and older homes, so it can be hard to tell where NPS boundaries are when you are there.

mtaylorlong commented 8 years ago

@cwlawlis802: This one relates so closely to all the boundary work you're doing in NACA that I'm going to wait and got through these when we've gotten all that sorted out. I'm guessing your work may resolve some of these issues.

chadlawlis commented 8 years ago

All of these issues should be resolved with our NCR update #347. Closing.