el Capitán's diary
TarifaThe big problem mapping Tarifa is the old town.
Even my eTrex Vista HCx had really bad reception in the small alleys. The tracks are unusable. And the yahoo-photos are too coarse graind to catch the roads.
Posted by el Capitán at Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:57:53 +0000 in English (English)
Comment from slashme at Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:53:31 +0000
That's quite a bad problem. Maybe balloon or kite photography would help?
Comment from Rhubarb at Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:45:54 +0000
If you've got the main roads in, and several other roads / references (like a bend in a main road, roundabout, etc), you could use Walking Papers to do an estimated survey of the town. Even better if you use a trundle wheel and a compass ;)
http://walking-papers.org/
Comment from el Capitán at Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:17:57 +0000
Thanks for the comments.
The walking papers would not help to get the really small roads. They are very labyrinthine.
Walking papers would help to get the shops and cafes, but that would be the next step.
Sure, balloon photography would be great. But I am there only 9 days per year, this is infeasible for me.
My last idea is to ask the local tourist office to allow me to use their old-town-tourist-map for OSM.
