<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Volker, in the last year, I have been busy<br>
hiking, mapping and updating national forest and<br>
wilderness areas in and around Big Sur (the whole<br>
of Monterey County, or MoCo, actually). Not only<br>
did another prolific mapper and I complete a<br>
careful import (Farm Mapping Project from State<br>
of California data), AND I uploaded the United<br>
States Forest Service boundaries of Los Padres<br>
National Forest, Ventana and Silver Peak<br>
Wildernesses, I also cleaned up most of the<br>
erroneous TIGER roads (as residential, most are<br>
rural dirt tracks) by painstakingly comparing<br>
them with Bing imagery. As Monterey County is<br>
more than 2/3 the size of the state of<br>
Connecticut, nearly 10,000 square kilometers,<br>
this was no small task! OK, MoCo is far from<br>
"done," but it is MUCH better than it was a year<br>
ago.<br>
<br>
Yes, we have a big country, but one road, caf?,<br>
bike route and restroom at a time, OSM builds it<br>
nicely.<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>Hi Steve,<br><br></div><div>I hope you didn't read may description of the status of the mapping on the CA West coast as criticism. It was a comment on the second half of the title of this thread ("...for use with OSM mapping"). In fact I noticed when I last drove along the coast by car that the map had drastically improved - now I know who did it. Thanks. <br>
<br></div><div>Volker<br>(Cyclist, Padova , Italy)<br></div></div><br></div></div>