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by dougmccune 4424 days ago
Would Strava be OK with people using this data to trace paths for Open Street Map?

I noticed there are quite a few paths through Golden Gate Park in SF (as just one of many examples) that are pretty clear running/biking paths that are not in any of the typical basemap providers' maps and not currently in OSM. If you reached out to the OSM community and gave the go ahead, this would be a great way to improve the trail data in OSM.
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paulmach 4424 days ago
We have a self-hosted version of the iD editor that already includes this data as a tracing layer. http://strava.github.io/iD/#background=Bing&map=16.97/-122.5...

I've also built another tool, Slide, to help use this data for faster editing, see http://labs.strava.com/slide/

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lfuller 4424 days ago
I'm amazed that there hasn't been more conversation about this - kudos to both you and Strava for this. These tools and this data set seem to have huge potential for crowd-sourced mapping.
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femto 4424 days ago
Better still if it could be released an an official layer for Open Street Map. Any chance of that happening given the licensing conditions of the various data sets?

Unlike a traced layer, the heatmap is self-updating and objective, so I think has a value of its own.

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