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

[simon at mungewell.org]

> 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.

You need to convince him/her of the beauty/eligence of road signs and get
him/her to take lots(!!) of pictures of them. ;-) Maybe sponsor him/her
with a big pack of batteries.

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

I have a makefile which I use to generate the Crowsnest Pass GPS Map,
which I'll email off list.

Cheers,
Mungewell.