Thanks! Komoot seems to be doing the trick. One question, is there any limit to the number of routes that I can have saved (there are close to 400 that I need to get a gps file for). How often does Komoot update their base map? There were some OSM changes that I made, and and it still shows the old tracks, so I'm guessing probably a few days?

This is helpful since should there be any reroutes or anything it will be easy to revise the tracks and download an updated file.

With Kamoot I noticed that it does limit me to one region (I chose Westchester County), but $9 for the Hudson Valley and $9 for Skylands, and $9 for Gateway aren't bad

And for the tracks, is there a way to adjust level of detail? When I zoom in I noticed that it does points at lets say 100 foot increments. Is there a way to get it to follow the OSM track exactly? This is just something minor.

Okay, I'll play around with Komoot some more. Maybe you know an easier way. A local author has written several hundred hike descriptions, I'm trying to help him get a gps file for each hike. So what I'm doing is following the hike on a map, and creating a temporary route, then going to Waymarked Trails and downloading the gps file of the hike, before deleting the temporary route.

Hi I know what OSM is used for, this was only temporary. I looked at Komoot and it only allows you to set start and end destination, there is no way to select the individual segments. I am planning on deleting this "temporary" route soon.

This is for internal purposes. I needed the route for something.

For the 'Roller Haven', there are trail closed signs at the northern end, and it looks like the park does not want people to use that trail, and is trying to restore that section of forest

The chance of it being re-added is very unlikely. The habitat/environment was restored.

So for Hilltop why don't you correct your mistake and do what you suggested?

Well for Hilltop the boundary is not complete. Since the road cuts through the park, I only had a chance to add the eastern half. I still had the western part and then had to tie them in with a multipolygon relation.

And you were quick to change it to "your way" before the complete boundary was even added.

Onatru Park and Preserve is one park, that is the official name of the place. There is just the road that cuts through the park. The name should be corrected and the place has sports fields so that makes it a park

https://www.lewisborony.gov/media/23571

Hilltop Hanover is definitely not a "nature reserve". The boundary that I added was incomplete, and I never got around to adding the western part of the park, which compromises the majority of the park. It is a farm/museum, and similar to Muscoot Farm Park.

For Onatru, the official name is 'Onatru Farm Park and Preserve'. The park is cut in half by the road, but they are both part of the same park, so the names should be consistent.

https://www.lewisborony.gov/media/23571

For Onatru, the official name is 'Onatru Farm Park and Preserve'. The park is cut in half by the road, but they are both part of the same park, so the names should be consistent.

https://www.lewisborony.gov/media/23571

Please don't touch it

And since everyone is all of a sudden interested in field data, we need someone to go and collect the rest of the GPS track for this trail and find out where it goes. The Note has been open for more than a month:

note/4934897#map=15/41.20891/-73.61812&layers=N

@Zlima12, a lot can be learned just by looking at the ground cover. For example Central Park has lots of fields, sports fields, tennis courts, gardens, monuments...etc. While lets say Harriman for example, even if I had never been there, looking at the map I would see that there are a lot of forest cover, mountains, lakes, woods roads. Regardless of park or nature preserve, if you see sports fields, tennis courts, fountains, monuments...etc, you can automatically tell it is a developed park. While if you see lot of hiking trails, and forest cover, it is safe to assume it is for hiking.

Suppose you did not know what Cranberry Lake was, just by looking at the features within the boundary you would be able to know a lot of information about what is in there.

@ZLima12, but features can indicate amenities, good gathering place...etc. It is stuff like baseball fields, type of land cover (woods, field, marsh...etc), benches, lakes, that can tell a lot more information.

@jmapb, and in many of the parks throughout the county, there is either missing data, or the trail data had been added 6+ years ago and never updated. A good example is Juhring Preserve. If you were to compare my data with what was previously there, the two are completely different. There had been several major reroutes and no one had bothered to check the existing data. From what I had seen over the past few months, there hasn't really been anyone active in checking the field data.

When it comes to OSM, I don't care much about the urban areas and stuff, and I'm not going to jump in and tell others how they should tag stuff. My focus is on the hiking trails and parks, and if anyone else would like to step up and collect field data, you are more than welcome to help out. As a case in point, within the past 2 months I have collected GPS data for close to 50 trail miles (not including the back and forths trying to cover each trail in a park), and this is in Westchester alone.

Thank you for agreeing with me. And I agree, the main focus should be on collecting data that is missing such as trails, woods roads, benches, parking lots...etc.

I edited it originally for consistency. Westchester County manages 25+ parks, each with wide variety of features/uses. If some are tagged as parks while others nature reserve, it creates some inconsistency.

And in Westchester at least, I've been trying to sort of standardize certain tag formats. For example with trail names I'll use 'Quarry Trail (blue)', as an example. If you are hiking, just 'Quarry Trail' does not help much, so also having the blaze color in parentheses is helpful from a hikers perspective.

And some parks can be subject to debate. Like Rockefeller State Park I did not touch at all. There are lot of carriage roads and some fields, but a huge portion of the park is natural woods. Or there is Ridge Road which has a few sports fields and picnic areas, but the same thing, a lot of woods and some hiking trails. I think the land use would be a better representation of what is in the park. For example if a separate area is drawn and then tagged as forest, or wetland, or meadow, or field, that can provide a lot more information to someone that is looking on the map.

Lets leave it as-is for now. There are regional variations, and the definition can be subjective (semi-natural, grass areas) and there are many places in the area that have characteristics of both. The main goal is to get the trail data inputted, and there are many parks in the area that have either missing or incorrect data. Additional details can be worried about later.

Thanks. There are big jumps, which don't capture the curves in the trail. In the southern area, near the landmark tree, I know that part of your trace is definitely wrong, there is a wooden split rail fence around the tree, and the trail curves around it. My track captured this sort of well.

Can you send a link to the Trace? And was it collected 6 months ago, or 4 years ago?