Table 1 Description of park cover datasets for the contiguous U.S.
From: The PAD-US-AR dataset: Measuring accessible and recreational parks in the contiguous United States
Name | Developers | Updated | Description | Source | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
USA Parks43 | Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri) | 09–2021 | “National and State parks and forests, along with County, Regional and Local parks within the United States… provides thousands of named parks and forests at many levels.” | Esri, TomTom | Esri Master License Agreement |
OSM44 | Open Street Map (OSM) Foundation | (continuous) | Park data are available by selecting relevant tags, consisting of a key and value separated by a colon. The key is a topic, category, or type of feature (i.e., areas used for leisure). The value provides detail for the key-specified feature (i.e., park vs. playground, both of which are used for leisure). Tags used in past research on park cover and greenspace measures vary but can include leisure = park, leisure = garden, landuse = grass45,83; playground and protected_area84; dog park and flower bed85; and allotment, cemetery, farmland/farmyard, forest/wood, greenfield, greenhouse, meadow, nature reserve, orchard, plant nursery, scrub, village green, and wetland86. Golf courses have been excluded from some greenspace analyses68. | Crowdsourced | Open Database License |
ParkServe46 | Trust for Public Land (TPL) | 05–2022 | “a comprehensive database of local parks in nearly 14,000 cities, towns, and communities… attempted to contact each city, town, and community with a request for their parks data. If no GIS data was provided, [TPL] created GIS data for the place based on available resources, such as park information from municipal websites, GIS data available from counties and states, and satellite imagery.” | Municipal, county, and state GIS datasets; Satellite imagery | Copyright held by the TPL; Data available for personal, non-commercial use |
PAD-US V2.147 | United States Geological Survey (USGS) | 09–2020 | “Nation’s inventory of protected areas, including public land and voluntarily provided private protected areas… an ongoing project with several published versions of a spatial database including areas dedicated to the preservation of biological diversity, and other natural (including extraction), recreational, or cultural uses, managed for these purposes through legal or other effective means… its scope expanded in recent years to include all public and nonprofit lands and waters… strives to be a complete inventory of public land and other protected areas, compiling ‘best available’ data provided by managing agencies and organizations.” | Federal, state, and local agencies; National Conservation Easement Database; ParkServe | Public domain |
PAD-US-AR V148 | The Authors and USGS Data | 12–2020 | A curated version of the PAD-US that identifies parks intended for recreation and accessible to the general public. | PAD-US V2.1 | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International |
