Probably surpising to most US users that there are open source projects of this nature in other parts of the world. Mainly because the GPS maps available there are so poor.
These guys run a very good cooperative project
http://www.tracks4africa.com/
If you contribute good data, you are entitled to an edited product.
They spend a lot of time and effort making sure that the routes they supply are as accurate as possible. In general only routes submitted more than once will make it into the final version.
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Probably surpising to most US users that there are open source projects of this nature in other parts of the world. Mainly because the GPS maps available there are so poor. These guys run a very good cooperative project http://www.tracks4africa.com/ If you contribute good data, you are entitled to an edited product. They spend a lot of time and effort making sure that the routes they supply are as accurate as possible. In general only routes submitted more than once will make it into the final version.