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GeoJSON file of 13 public use cabins in the White Mountains National Recreation Area, north of Fairbanks in Alaska, USA. Includes the newest cabin (as of fall 2024), Yeager's. These are WGS 84 coordinates with precision to four decimal places, which is approximately 10 meters (30 feet). This file can be dragged and dropped into GIS software / etc.
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liamtoney commented Oct 27, 2024 •
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This file can be read using e.g. Python via

import geopandas as gpd
gdf = gpd.read_file('https://gist.githubusercontent.com/liamtoney/28d8caf5d2c7a77444ff91e4cf8db9c4/raw/wm_cabins.geojson')

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The file was created by copying coordinates from Recreation.gov pages for each cabin (e.g. page for Cache Mountain). I then manually adjusted some coordinates using satellite imagery to better match true cabin locations.

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