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New Brighton State Beach

Posted by Icycle on 12 October 2009 in English.

Earlier this summer, I camped at New Brighton State Beach, in Capitola, California. I captured GPS tracklogs for the entire trip to and from the campsite, as well as some of my travels on the internal roads within the campsite.

While taking a look at the OSM rendering for New Brighton State Beach, I noticed that the existing internal roads in the park were significantly different from what I remembered, so I cleaned the up a bit, using my GPS tracklogs as reference. Due to the heavy tree cover in the area, it is difficult or impossible to use the satellite images for reference.

I was able to get things a little closer to reality, but it would probably be a good idea for someone to map out this park a little more thoroughly, because I know there are still some inaccuracies and omissions in the existing data.

Location: Capitola, Santa Cruz County, California, 95010, United States
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Discussion

Comment from nmixter on 14 October 2009 at 04:58

Yeah, Santa Cruz county has always been tough because a good portion is covered with trees. There are still a lot of roads that are off. But we're making slowly but surely.

Comment from Icycle on 20 October 2009 at 05:01

During the cycling season, I sometimes bike up in the mountain roads of Santa Cruz County with my GPS. I'll try to upload my tracklogs whenever I do so, since it seems like that could be a very useful resource for making these tree covered roads more accurate in OSM.

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