Please plan to join us June 3 to hear FOSM board member and Sandia Ranger District volunteer Jamey Browning describe how our smartphone hiking apps get their up-to-date trails data.

Date and Time – June 3, 6:00 PM (Note new starting time)

Location - Sandia Ranger Station conference room

Program abstract – Have you ever wondered how smart phone trail apps such as AllTrails or Gaia GPS get their trail data?  If there are errors, how do they get corrected?  As new trails get built and old trails demolished, how does this information get into the apps?

Jamey Browning will cover where the data originates and how updates get into the apps.  We will look at the efforts made over the past several years to improve the integrity of the Sandia area map data used by the apps.  In particular,  we will look at how official trail data from the US Forest service database was merged into the OpenStreetMap database used by smartphone trail apps so that each trail can be rendered and displayed according to the official managed usage. 

We also will look at map and signage volunteer work done for the Forest Service as well as made for various organizations and agencies associated with our mountains. 

Speaker bio – Jamey Browning is the Maps and Signage Chair of the FOSM board.  He is originally from Carlsbad NM and has been in Albuquerque since 1980, working for various engineering firms.  He started hiking in the Sandias in 2014 and enjoys finding and exploring new trails.  He has hiked over 2,800 miles in the Sandias with about 111 miles of altitude gain.    

Please plan to join us on June 3

Cliff Giles

FOSM VP

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