RLIS Trails to Open Trail Specification

A working python conversion script for RLIS Trails to the Open Trail specification

• Aims to be lean on dependencies.
• Does not require GDAL, shapely, arcpy etc.
• Not web-based.

In Brief

Order of operations

1. Download trails file from RLIS
2. Unzip
3. Read shapefile (into memory)
4. Create trails_segments.geojson
5. Create named_trails.csv
6. Create stewards.csv
7. Create areas.geojson

Dependencies

If you have a compiler, you can run pip install -r requirements.txt but if not or you don't know, go snag these installables for your correct platform and python version:

• pyshp
• pyproj
• requests

Instructions

• Clone or download the zipped repository
• Satisfy dependencies (see above)
• >python RLISTRails2OT.py

Disclaimers

• Does not include trailheads.geojson
• Does not include areas.geojson
• DO NOT HANG ANYTHING OFF OF THE NAMED_TRAIL.CSV IDs
• See issue 1

License

• Open Database and Content License
• RLIS version