Welcome aboard. I have made numerous additions in the Bay Area and would be happy to help however I can. Let me know if you have any problems or questions.

Just wondering, since the osm file is a text file, can it be opened in Word and then running the convert case and then saving it back as a text file again.

No land use imports anywhere? Farms always tough to do by hand. More power to you if you have the patience :)

What procedure do you use to correct the tags? I don't see any place on the wiki. Do you do it through JOSM?

For the trail names, you can usually get them from the official state or county park web site. Usually these maps are for publicity and freely distributed. You just have to be careful when copying info from a third party that may have copyrighted the data.

At least OSM map is correct. Maybe they can change sign to 'go to openstreetmap.org for an updated route'

Keep on trekin. See if your can spread the word about osm to local municipalities, teachers and other leaders in the community. Get others involved. Soon the map will fill in quickly. Maybe try printing out walkingpaper and distribute them in the community.

I've used highway=footway for the cart paths.

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.

OSM's greatest strength - it's openness - is also it's greatest weakness. Sometimes maps can look crowded when several people edit an area, and several layers competing with each other. When they are extremely detailed, they aren't useful to anyone because they lack focus. The best cartographic maps are the simple ones. Currently there aren't any good tools for displaying just certain feature unless you have a good programing knowledge. However, there are many promising tools being developed. There needs to be a way to view different layers and extract the data from those layers. That will actually encourage more people to contribute because they can focus on the layers they are interested in while others can focus on other layers.

I wonder if there is any way to automatically remove 0 values from tags. There's got to be a script somewhere.

Thanks for your help!! Looks good. Wish I would have known about that with other imports. Do you know if that process is documented on the wiki? Also, are you in California by any chance?

Thanks for the comments. The changeset is 2767175. Looks like the whole thing failed. I don't know how to revert it, so if it doesn't take too much time, I would appreciate it if you want to give it a shot. What script do you use? Do you the python or java shp2osm? I'm using the java version. What do you add to the script to have it pick up where it left off? Thanks.

Thanks for the comments. The changeset is 2767175. Looks like the whole thing failed. I don't know how to revert it, so if it doesn't take too much time, I would appreciate it if you want to give it a shot. What script do you use? Do you the python or java shp2osm? I'm using the java version. What do you add to the script to have it pick up where it left off? Thanks.

yes it is an addiction. you have to pace yourself . set aside a certain amount of time and stick with it. someone needs to start an osm anonymous group.

You can convert it to osm with the shp2osm script. It is fairly straight forward for anyone who knows any programming at all. If you can, I would suggest adding the whole thing since it appears most of it hasn't been added yet. Not sure if there anything you can do with the relations. OSM is all about adding data then other people coming along later on and making it better. Sometimes that means erasing the current data and updating it with something better. But that is where it gets tricky with what to remove.

Great job. Now if we can get the rest of the states to pick it up as well. That is the way osm should be with layers you can turn off and on.

Looks interesting. Seems like a good workaround if you don't have time to do a 30-mile hike. You might want to post this information on the wiki also to see if people have any more ideas. I'd say go ahead and add the trails this way even if they're off. It could be kind of like the Tiger data where people can update them later on. It's too bad they don't have a shapefile with the trail info, then we could post it directly instead of having to trace the paths.

looks good. you got a lot of good info going. Have you seen http://www.wlevey.com/coepark/? It is the only decent maps I could find of the park. It may help with names. The site has Topo (tpo, tpg) maps for download. I don't think anyone still maintains the site. I emailed him asking if we could use the data on OSM but haven't heard back.

I wonder if they still have the open backcountry weekend like they have in the past. That was always fun. You get to drive to where usually takes about a day to get to on foot. It would be a great opportunity for OSMers to coordinate that weekend for a mapping party.

Why not just add it to the public map? That is what makes open source great is that people can add whatever features they want (that have been setup of course) to the map and use it however they want.