User:Stevea
I am currently focused on Santa_Cruz_County,_California (especially City of Santa Cruz) and other San_Francisco_Bay_Area,_California areas (including Monterey Bay and Monterey County as well as Santa Clara County / Silicon Valley South_Bay_(SF),_California) in California, United States. I am active in the "Central Coast" area of California as well, north of Santa Barbara.
I frequently collaborate with user:Srmixter, user:Apo42 and user:DanHomerick to refine the September 2009 uploads to OSM, sourced from the public data published by the Santa Cruz County GIS Department and CaSIL data for state parks from University of California Davis. This includes developing better tags and strategies for uploading public data for especially parks (leisure=park and leisure=nature_reserve) and park-like areas (landuse=forest, wood, common). We endeavor to have a set of "lessons learned" to publish to the OSM community about what worked for us during these uploads and what we could have done better. This might turn into guidelines/checklists for anybody who might do a wide area (city, county, state) data upload, especially regarding the harmonization of zoning attributes in public data with leisure and landuse tags in OSM.
We also continue to develop a proposal that will (if accepted by the OSM community) make its way into renderers to show park and other similar landuse boundaries with multiple colored dashes depending on their jurisdiction and/or admin_level. This would be similar to how boundary=national_park creates a dashed-green boundary, but with different colors for different levels of jurisdiction, from local playgrounds to national forests. There are many complex overlapping park boundaries of various levels of jurisdiction in California, especially in very far northern California. We want to communicate these in a way that the OSM community both accepts and finds pleasing to the eye so that even users uninitiated with the sometimes subtle semiotics of cartographic jurisdiction can visually parse complex boundaries with ease.
I or we (potentially with user:Sarah_M) may also host a Mapping Party at the University of California Santa Cruz campus. This campus is under-complete, needing more complete footpaths, buildings (Colleges III, IV, VI, IX and X) and amenities.
I have recently been coordinating with user:adelman to improve mountain biking trails.
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