[OSM-talk] Madeira - calling all Yahoo tracing enthusiasts

[David Ebling]

A relative was looking for maps of Madeira the other day, and it struck me that Openstreetmap has infintely better coverage of Madeira than Google maps (non-existent) or Multimap/Live maps (turning on aerial views shows their Navteq/AND data to be massively innacurate) Yahoo maps on the other hand has decent coverage.

It struck me that we could perhaps use Madeira as a showcase for OSM, but perhaps some further work is needed first. I also noticed that at least some of the island has reasonable quality high-res Yahoo images. I have started some *cautious* tracing work on the most obvious roads (I know it's easy to create hugely innacurate maps by tracing, putting roads where there are none - I've seen it in OSM first hand :( ) tagging as highway=road. If anyone else cares to join me, I think we could improve coverage quite rapidly.

The aforementioned relative is soon travelling to Madeira with a GPS, and I think I can persuade him to bring back a bunch of track files, though I think they are unlikely to be annotated. It seems showing that OSM can provide better quality maps than some of the commercial offerings is likely to persuade him to contribute them.

Now all I need to do is figure out how to make a decent Garmin format OSM map for him!

Regards,

Dave