ABOUT THE GIS LAB
The Outdoor Alliance Geographic Information System (GIS) Lab aggregates, analyzes, and visualizes spatial data in order to provide the outdoor community, agencies, and policy makers with the best possible representation of human-powered recreation in the United States.
Much of our work is focused on the protection of public lands and waters. The GIS Lab provides data-driven information, maps, and tools that are used to drive advocacy efforts, guide policy recommendations, and educate the outdoor recreation community.
Through important data partnerships that collect crowdsourced data, like American Whitewater and onX Maps, and by compiling federal, state, and local recreation data, Outdoor Alliance provides the outdoor community, advocates, and policy makers with the best possible representation of human-powered recreation in the United States. By understanding where recreational resources are located, Outdoor Alliance is able to use this information to advocate for recreation access and the conservation of our public lands and waters.
Data Partners
Outdoor Alliance aggregates, analyzes and visualizes recreation data in order to provide the outdoor community, advocates and policy makers with the best possible representation of human-powered recreation in the United States. Much of our work is focused on the protection of public lands. We've partnered with Adventure Project (now OnX Maps), American Whitewater, and Trailforks to map recreation data so that we can identify priority places and work to protect recreation access. When you contribute information (e.g. rides, trails, tours, climbing routes, whitewater runs) to any of these websites or applications it provides our organization and community with access to more accurate data, resulting in better protection of human-powered recreation and our public lands.
