HIFLD

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The Department of Homeland Security maintains a database of a wide variety of domestic American foundation-level geospatial data. The purpose of this page is to document information on importing this data to OpenStreetMap.

Community Support

Support for import by State

State	Region	Support
Alabama	Statewide	Full support
West Virginia	Statewide	Full support

Import Data

Background

Data Source Site: https://hifld-geoplatform.hub.arcgis.com/pages/hifld-open

Data License: Public Domain

Import Type

The idea is for individual datasets to be imported on a state scale if large in size, or at a nationwide scale all at once if the dataset is below around 2,000 objects in size.

Data Preparation

Tagging Plans

On an individual dataset basis, the useful tags should be determined and documented separately.

Changeset Tags

You should include a link to the about page on the HIFLD of the dataset you are importing in the source of your changeset.

Key	Value
comment	HIFLD (dataset name) Import
import	yes
source	HIFLD
source:url	hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/
source:date	varies by dataset. add from the HIFLD website.
import:page	https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/HIFLD
source:license	CC0-1.0

Data Transformation

Be sure to remove the unneeded tags from every object in the data you are importing either in QGIS or JOSM.

Data Merge Workflow

Approach

As mentioned in other parts of this wiki page, data should be imported on statewide or on a county/citywide basis by local mappers or other mappers with the support of the local mapping community.

Workflow

Tags to remove

Unless it is in the table of tags to convert to OSM, please delete any other tags on databased objects

Uploading

When you are finished reviewing the data, follow these steps when uploading.

• 1: add the link to the dataset information page in your source comment.
• 2: cite the wiki page corresponding to the dataset you are importing's documentation
• 3: mention the name of the dataset you are importing in the changeset comment, for example: 'Importing HIFLD Cellular Database'.

Data Categories

As of now each data category is documented on a table with a hyperlink to the HIFLD page under the name, A quality rating discerned from a sampling of the data compared to if the location exists in reality, notes about the import including if the import is small enough that it should be taken on all at once on a nationwide scale, and a status column to measure the progress of importing any given dataset.

The goal is to have a wiki page created for each category with instructions written for importing each dataset.

Size:

Dataset size is determined with the following method:

Download the dataset and open in QGIS. run the vector processing tool “delete duplicate geometries.” the new count after duplicate geometries are removed is documented on the wiki.

Quality:

Quality is assessed using the following method:

create a random extract of 100 objects from the dataset in QGIS, examine each object individually and determine if a mapper could reasonably assign the object to a real object for OpenStreetMap. If I couldn't find a corresponding object near the point, I subtract a point against the dataset.

Status values:

Not Documented- Database only recorded with quality and notes, no instructions about conflation or tag interpretation written

Not Started- Documentation written, Import has not been started.

In Progress- Documentation written, Import has been started.

Complete- Import complete.

Agriculture

Main article: HIFLD/United States Poultry Import

This category has 1 suitable dataset.

Chemicals

Main article: HIFLD/Chemicals

This category has 4 suitable datasets.

Commercial

Main article: HIFLD/Commercial

This category has 2 suitable datasets.

Communications

Main article: HIFLD/Communications

This category has 6 suitable datasets.

Education

Main article: HIFLD/Education

This category has 4 suitable datasets.

Emergency

Main article: HIFLD/Emergency

This category has 4 suitable datasets.

Energy

Main article: HIFLD/Energy

This category has 11 suitable datasets.

Finance

Main article: HIFLD/Finance

This category has 5 suitable datasets.

Government

Main article: HIFLD/Government

This category has 3 suitable datasets.

Law Enforcement

Main article: HIFLD/Law Enforcement

This category has 2 suitable datasets.

Mail Shipping

Name	Quality	Notes	Status
DHL Facilites		Be sure to review type. Good for import.	Not Documented
UPS Facilities		Dropboxes. Good for import	Not Documented
FedEx Facilites		Dropboxes. Good for import	Not Documented
Shipping Facilites		Good for import.	Not Documented

Public Health

Main article: HIFLD/Public Health

Name	Quality	Notes	Status
Nursing Homes		Good for import.	Not Documented
Public Health Departments		Good for import.	Not Documented
Veterans Health Administration Facilities		Good for import/review.	Not Documented
Hospitals		Needs Review	Not Documented

Public Venues

Name	Quality	Notes	Status
Cruise Line Terminals		Good for import/review. import nationwide.	Not Documented
Fairgrounds		Good for import.	Not Documented
Libraries		Needs review	Not Documented

Air Transportation

Name	Quality	Notes	Status
Aircraft Landing Facilities		Good for finding helipads.	Not Documented

Ground Transportation

Name	Quality	Notes	Status
Weigh In Motion Stations		Good for import.	Not Documented
IPCD		Good for finding Greyhound stations. may be useful in areas serviced by other agencies.	Not Documented
National Bridge Inventory		Use maproulette.	Not Documented
Railroad Bridges			Not Documented

Marine Transportation

Name	Quality	Notes	Status
Buoys		Good for import. includes shape information, for inland navigable rivers	Not Documented
Ferry Terminals		Good for import.	Not Documented
NAVAID Locations		Good for import.	Not Documented
Navigation Lights		Good for micromapping.	Not Documented
Bridge Areas		Good for micromapping.	Not Documented
Crane Locations		Good for finding unmapped cranes inland	Not Documented
Daymark Locations		Seems okay for importing. I'm not familiar with mapping objects like these though	Not Documented
Lock Traffic Signals		Seems okay for importing. Import nationwide	Not Documented
Notice Marks		''	Not Documented
Special Purpose Buoys		Seems okay for importing.	Not Documented
Wrecks and Obstruction Areas		Needs review.	Not Documented
Floating Dock Areas		Needs review.	Not Documented

Reference Datasets

for various reasons, these datasets aren’t suitable for importing, but are still useful to use as reference when mapping.

Name	Notes
Trails	Conflating the geometry is not feasible, still has immensely useful info.
Electric Power Transmission Lines	Will require conflation.
General Manufacturing Facilities	Very out of date, verify the facility still exists using the website. [1]

External Links

https://hifld-geoplatform.hub.arcgis.com/pages/hifld-open - browse site

https://services1.arcgis.com/Hp6G80Pky0om7QvQ/ArcGIS/rest/services - ArcGIS database

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports/2022-October/006970.html Discussion

https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/proposed-import-of-the-hifld-general-manufacturing-facilities-dataset/101156