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# Mapping Rural America
Mappy Hour Discussion
23 February 2022

### Questions for discussion
* How to get started with TIGER cleanup? [Jess]
* US Forest Service publishes an open data web feature service that includes roads closed to motor vehicles. How should these be tagged? [Andy] I currently tag these as Highway:track with the tag motor_vehicle=no since they are excluded from the Motor Vehicle Use Maps (MVUM), which are the official data source for roads on USFS lands (not USGS topos)
* I'd like to map wooded areas - but  the size is daunting. (The whole west side of the state is wooded)
How many different land use classes exist in OSM? Are they based on a standardized LULC classifcation?  I have not explored that in OSM.
* Has anyone had success engaging local groups to map rural POIs?

### Resources & Links
* [National Forest Roads in OSM wiki](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging#National_Forest_Road_System)
* [United States/Public lands](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Public_lands)
* [US Forest Service open data portal](https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/)
* [USFS map services available at this link](https://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/edw/datasets.php) if you wish to use the data as a web service in ID editor or JOSM
* [Park_boundary](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Park_boundary)
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### Keep the conversation going

`#rural-america` channel on slack


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