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. Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: samvekemans IRC: irc://irc.oftc.net #osm-ca Canadian OSM channel (an open chat room) @Acrosscanadatrails
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