[Talk-ca] Virtual "Across Canada Trails - Bike Mapping Across Canada"

[Sam Vekemans]

Hi All,

Im now on day 003 of my "Virtual Bike Across Canada Trip"
I decided that what i would do is; in real-time, actually Map the entire
route & travel journal (complete with OSM Maps!)  for each day as i go
along.
The idea is that by the end of the summer (or fall, or whenever i virtually
get to Cape Spear Newfoundland) i will have every day maped out in detail.

Now that we have so much data available (and not yet imported) it wont be
that hard to map the details as i go along.
On my route, i am finding all of the trails that are not yet mapped on OSM.

So i am allowed to copy the trails (from other sources) ie. from GeoBC
(which i now have the detailed database of trails).  Although they wont go
to OSM, i can still listed these trails on bikemap.net (or wandermap.net)
so then others can actually navigate these trails, and in-turn, donate thier
tracks to OSM and update the map.

I started the trip on monday (Victoria Day Holiday)  and plan on "Virtually"
reaching Cape Spear by September 1st (Labour day)... although at the rate im
going, it might be longer :)

Anyway, the good news is that (with the help of User:Phurl) on the #osm-ca
IRC chat, i learned about Wikia   So i created a wiki website which is
dedicated to this whole project.  (the site is down today, but tomorrow it
should be back up)
http://acrosscanadatrails.wikia.com/wiki/Across_Canada_Trails_Wiki

You can see on my Posterous blog, that's where im posting the daily journal
& notes as well as Maps.
http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/day-003-ucluelet-to-port-alberni-route-detail

So if anyone wants to help map ahead of me, i have a list of things that can
be worked on, just let me know :)

Cheers,
Sam Vekemans
Across Canada Trails

P.S. for those of you who dont know,  Peter Freeman & his wife are going to
be cycling across Canada on a tandum bike.  So i will be listing the
standard "Bike Across Canada" (along alot of the Trans Canada Highway) *for
a road bicycle route details also.  So we do need to work on New Brunswick &
Nova Scotia, to get the main roads mapped.  As their is still gaps.   These
roads can be easily traced from Toporama WMS, and the maps updated before
they get their.


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