Coastal Hiking Trail Maps for Massachusetts Preserved Lands

Trail map locations for select preserved lands along the Massachusetts coast. The dataset is provided by the organization SCIOPS via the NASA Earthdata platform.

Use Cases

• Mapping trail density along the Massachusetts coastline using geospatial location data.
• Analyzing the proximity of preserved lands to coastal features for conservation planning.
• Identifying gaps in public trail access by examining the distribution of mapped trail locations.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific geographic region: the coast of Massachusetts.
• Documents locations for preserved lands, a specific land management category.

Limitations

• The total number of trail map locations (rows) is unknown.
• Specific data attributes like trail length or difficulty are not described.

Provenance

Source

SCIOPS via NASA Earthdata

Geography

Coast of Massachusetts, USA