A good start. Let's do it...

osm.wiki/Proposed_features/Winery

I just finished adding the areas for all the rest areas and travel plazas in California from the caltrans website. The data was in points, and I added the area for each item based on bing imagery. They have some good data sets that might be useful for reference. One other one that I have started adding is the caltrans maintenance station area. There are about 400 so if anyone wants to help add the areas especially for southern cal let me know and I can send you the josm file for the area you are interestedin adding.

I added the North Wilderness Trail at the Pinnacles and updated some other trails that were a little rough. Most trails have been added there, and that was one of the few trails left to OSMify. It was a good hike even if the trail is no longer maintained.

November 17 is GIS Day. Look at what area community groups and colleges and universities are doing. There may be an opportunity to present speak to one of those groups on OSM and how it is changing the mapping world and maybe even get some more local recruits. For more see www.gisday.com.

The California State Department of Conservation Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program (FMMP) has given OpenStreetMap permission to use their farm data under a public domain license. They just request attribution. To comment about the proposal, go to osm.wiki/California_Farms.

We should import the new 2010 data when it comes out hopefully by the end of the year. Currently just the 2008 data is available. The data can be posted and then people who are familiar with the areas can download them, clean them up in JOSM and then upload. They should compare the FMMP data with the existing data and then replace the old farm data with new farm data when possible.

We should use this data set for importing just the farmland. The other land areas, urban lands and grazing areas could come in handy when needing to add a zone to a city that hasn't been zoned but in general shouldn't be used. The water layer should also be avoided because the NHD import is better.

This data is included in the California Land Cover import, but this data is more accurate and should be done first before that import is attempted.

Issues

Updating- The data is updated every two years. FMMP is looking for a way to be able to update the data when it is changed and also to see what changes have been made. They would also like to be able to contribute back to OSM and in turn be able to reference the data from OSM when it changes. There currently aren't any good methods to be able to sync the data.

Alignment- FMMP data is slightly misaligned and appears to be off when viewed with aerial photos or OSM data. FMMP is saved in NAD27 and would need to be converted to WGS84. While the data is generally good, it's almost as if the whole layer needs to be shifted slightly to make it align. It could simply be a matter of the projection conversion. Maybe there is another way to automatically convert it.

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The filters in the newer versions of JOSM are great. Check them out if you haven't used them. For instance, if you need to change a tag or add a tag for several items at once.

First create a filter with the tag you want to find and click add to selection. Then select all three check marks. If all went ok, you should see just the items you selected. Now you can highlight all the items you selected easily. You can add tags all at once.

This may add the tag to individual nodes as well. If you want the tags on just the ways, use the filter "type:node whateverthetaghere". Now you can select the nodes easily and delete them all at once.

Check out OsmAnd at http://code.google.com/p/osmand/. It is a pretty good point of interest collector for the Droid phone that even does routing. Since Mapzen just has an iPhone version, this is a good alternative.

Check out the San Jose Mercury story about OSM in the Bay Area.

http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_14856802

I am uploading some of the National Hydrography data in Arizona. I created rules to use with the Java shp-to-osm script that I posted on the wiki page. I wanted to at least get the major bodies of water in. There is a lot of good data in the files, and I can't upload everything. So if anyone is interested in uploading any of the files, i.e. points, lines, etc., please let me know and I can email or post the osm files.

While on vacation in Arizona last week I added areas near Fort Verde, Montezuma Castle and Well and Tuzigoot Monument.

I also added areas around the Apache Trail for Goldfield Ghost Town, Superstition Mountain Museum, Mining Camp Restaurant and some points along the Apache Trail.

I added surface=unpaved to the 20-mile portion of the Apache Trail where it is not paved. I didn't know if I could make it with a small rental car. But it was in good condition, and I had no problems. I guess that is what rental cars are for. I didn't know how far it went so I called the resort at Roosevelt Lake to find out if there was gas nearby.

It's interesting to see the desert areas marked as forests. Technically they are a national forest, but many parts are actually desert scrub. Maybe a landcover import will help there. I also noticed that several of the bodies of water along the Apache trail were missing like Roosevelt Lake and Canyon Lake. Tiger 2009 actually has a good water layer with this data in it. Is anyone interest in uploading it. Or I could do it. Not sure if these would compete with the natural hydrology import I think is being done.

Planning is in progress to add California vegetation land cover shapefiles. The state has some good land cover shapefiles on the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection site. They are sorted by county. The smallest are under a meg while the largest - Fresno - is more than 400 megs. The average size is around 30 to 40 megs. These would be a great addition to OSM since they contain valuable metadata. Once the areas have been added, the state will take on a similar look to states like Georgia and Massachusetts that have had statewide imports done. Another good example of what California can be is the Corine Land Cover.
Check out the [[California Land Cover]] wiki page to learn more.

I just finished adding the Tiger 2009 area polygon shapefiles for California. The data includes most parks, national forests, cemeteries, commercial areas, some schools, colleges and universities and more. I tried to remove the larger parks and areas to not duplicate existing areas. But some of the smaller parks were repeated and need to be manually removed. Also Tiger uses a weird set of abbreviations which I documented on the [[TIGER 2009]] wiki page. I corrected some of the later ones by opening the OSM file in a text editor and then doing a find and replace for each one. I uploaded all the counties except for Santa Cruz and Los Angeles which have already had imports done in them or have already been mapped. I added the points and water files in the bay area. A lot of these repeat what is on the ground, so I am going to let others add the other ones in their counties if they want. If anyone in the U.S. would like to upload data for their counties but doesn't know how to use the java shp-to-osm, let me know and I can email you the OSM files you can upload in JOSM.

Just updated all the Mount Madonna trails and amenities (rectified from official park map). There were a bunch of Tiger residentials that should have been tracks. Trails include whether horses are allowed or not. 3,615 points total added or modified. It had just a few trails before. Took quite awhile but it was worth getting everything in.

Just added farm areas from the official Napa County file that we got permission to upload. Many vineyards were added.

I imported all the Mono County building footprints from the county GIS file, one of a handful of counties that have given us permission to use their data. Buildings are always good to have, and I wanted to see how they would look. I think San Diego county is the only other area in California with building imports. Hopefully we can get Santa Clara County buildings and files soon. I saw CAPIL had county zoning and parcel files, but I couldn't find any way to download them.

Unfortunately the upload crashed about half way through so there are a ton of extra points as with Santa Cruz. I will go in and clean them up with JOSM and validator as with Santa Cruz. It just takes forever. Also not all the addresses were in the shapefile, so many of the buildings have a 0 on them. And each of the buildings in a complex has a name, instead of one name for the whole area.

I think I need to increase the amount of memory with JOSM. Also I need to figure out a way to have the outer relations show up in the OSM files. I originally thought it might be a problem with the 2,000 node limit. In the rules file, I just define the outer shapes. I think I saw somewhere the inner relations weren't defined. I think there is a multipolygon. Should I try that?

I added Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC to OSM.

I finished zoning the southern portion of San Jose and Los Gatos from 85 south to 17. I will keep moving north.

I added shapes for Lake Nacimiento and San Antonio Reservoir from Yahoo. They are fairly large bodies of water in central california so I can't believe they hadn
t been added before. There was one hamlet which was located under where one of the lakes was. Not sure what it was but left it there in case it a buried gold mine or underwater city of atlantis or something.

I added county and state park shapes in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties using map rectifier (labs.metacarta.com/rectifier). It is a great program to use to add landuses that can't be added with GPS. Now the area on the west bay is no longer completely white. It's now got a smathering of green parks throughout. I included the wms rectified image numbers below in case anyone wants to look at them or add extra features, ie trails, restrooms, campsites. Currently I just added the shapes for the parks. I will continue to add additional parks working north toward SF.

Levin 1016
Calero 1015
Anderson 1014
Almaden 1013
Grant 1017
Hellyer 1018
Motorcycle 1019
Uvas 1041
Upper Stevens Creek 1038
Santa Theresa 1030
Sanborn 1029
Montalvo 1028
Los Gatos 1027
Lexington 1026
Coyote Lake 1042
Big Basin State Park 1105
Castle Rock State Park 1110
Portola State Park 1113

Continued editing area south of San Jose in Gilroy and Morgan Hill. I've added most of the correct curves to the streets to line them up with Yahoo's images. New lines for streets have been added, but I haven't added names yet. Next to add is features such as golf courses, parks, schools and churches.