It's only got three lines, but I've successfully completed digitizing the light rail system in Santa Clara County (San Jose, CA), marking all stations and digitizing the rail line. The main extensions that had to be added were lines down to Alum Rock, Campbell, Santa Teresa, and Almaden.
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Los Gatos Creek Trail, San Jose to downtown Campbell
Posted by adbrown on 10 August 2008 in English.Working away at digitizing this trail.
Over the past few days, I've been repositioning a lot of the TIGER street data to align with the satellite photos ... realignment is an eternal task - you guys might try to attract as many obsessive-compulsive people as possible to your site, to clean up the TIGER data as quickly as possible. In any case, I've been systematically working at adding trail data from the city trail network - including some stuff in the suburbs of Santa Clara and Sunnyvale. Downtown San Jose, I've been adding various parks, bike trails, and foot trails, and schools. I hope in a couple weeks time to have all of the official city bike network on the map. I've also been working on road classification, using a rather subjective approach.
My original goal was to add bike trails ... but there's enough repositioning left in San Jose to keep me working for a couple weeks of evenings... I performed some categorization, and added a major road were I used to live that somehow went missing (Agnew Road...)
I've been mostly repositioning roads in the eastern section of San Jose, to the satellite imagery - mostly keeping the topology from the TIGER data intact. I've classified a handful of roads upward from residential to secondary or tertiary, but there was so much repositioning work to do, I focused on that.
Removed some non-existent streets from the database, edited some attributes indicating that the Guadalupe River Trail was a boatway. First attempt at editing the map. :