User:Icycle

I live and work in San José, California. I tend to map in my local region, but also in places that I visit when traveling, especially when those locations have few or no local mappers. My mapping tends to have a strong emphasis on features important to cyclists, such as designated bike routes, off road bike paths, pedestrian overcrossings, bike shops, and similar features. Some areas that I have taken a special interest in include:

• Silicon Valley
• Sonoma County, with a focus on the Healdsburg area
• Truckee, Califoria and the north Lake Tahoe area
• Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
• Astoria, Oregon
• State of Hawaiʻi
  • Maui
  • Big Island
• The Pacific Coast Bicycle Route, a semi-official bike route from Vancouver, BC to San Diego, CA.

Projects

• Collecting street names in some new subdivisions in the Silver Creek area of San Jose.
• Finish splitting Bird Ave from 280 to Coe.
• Fleshing out cycling related features in the San José area
• Fleshing out cycling related features in the Truckee and north Lake Tahoe area, especially the numbered cycle route network and the off street bike paths.
• Finish splitting Bird Ave from 280 to Coe.
• Transcribing the Pacific Coast Bike Route in Caltrans District 1 from the official published map (permission has been granted for this use)
• Improving the quality of mapping in Hawaiʻi
  • Getting the main islands (except Oʻahu) reimported from 2008 or 2009 TIGER data to correct datum errors
  • Investigate importing additional data provided by the Hawaiʻi GIS Department
  • Upload GPS tracklogs from my August-September 2009 cycle trip in Hawaiʻi
  • Refine coastlines based on Yahoo satellite images
  • Add beaches based on Yahoo satellite images
    • Add beach names where I know them
  • Add facilities such as public restrooms, campsites, bike lanes, hiking trails, and so on, based on on my GPS traces, Yahoo imagery, and recollections.