[OSM-talk] Cuba maps

[S Knox]

I am planning on visiting Cuba in April, and have heard one of the problems with car hire is that road signs are truly awful. Which gave me the idea to take a GPS and kill two birds with one stone - use existing data to know roughly where the roads were and help with naviagation, and also to use the traces from the GPS to improve the maps for the country.

I have two reservations with this strategy:

1) There is very little current data available. Since most of the Western have of the island has been recently accidentally deleted along with some other streets, Cuba looks bare. To remedy this I was planning on importing some VMAP0 or DCW data, no mass import, but just a few roads that might make the map more useful if I do download it onto a GPS. Does anyone object to this?

2) I'm not sure how a GPS reciever would be percieved in Cuba, particularly at Customs. I don't think the regime is particularly paranoid about these things, but bearing in mind history and politics, does anyone have any experience with their import and use

Any help gratefully appreciated

Steve 


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