sainsb / midnrtoopentrails

Michigan DNR to Open Trails Converter

A working python conversion script for Michigan DNR data 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 lookup tables and shapefiles
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

• Check if you have Python 2.7+ by running python --version from a terminal

• Install Python 2.7+ if not already installed.

• Run pip install -r requirements.txt to install dependent libraries, or you can download and install the individually:

• pyshp

• pyproj

• requests

Instructions

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

Disclaimers

• Does not include areas.geojson