Open data
Lake outline data
Lake outlines are derived from OpenStreetMap and made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0.
The file below contains the 97 lake outlines we currently use, exactly as we received them, with the OpenStreetMap way or relation for each lake.
Download michigan-lake-outlines-odbl.geojson (GeoJSON, about 1.5 MB)
Attribution
© OpenStreetMap contributors. Data available under the Open Database License. See openstreetmap.org/copyright.
Lake names, counties and approximate center points come from USGS GNIS via Wikidata. Our on-site previews use simplified versions of these outlines for display only; they are not production cut files.