Is this feasible?

[Dave Nuttall]

Suppose there was a low-budget entity in a "developing nation" where either
spatial data for roads and public places does not exist or is closely held
by the CIA or Russians in their vaults of satellite data, etc.

 

Even though it would be quite labor intensive, the low budget-entity would
be able to drive the roads/streets/highways and theoretically create spatial
data by running a GPS that continuously dumps to a laptop in the passenger's
seat.

 

My initial response to the group that wants me to help them is that it would
be quite a bit more difficult without a reasonable base/starting map that is
moderately accurate.

 

Does anyone on the list know of similar efforts to create a reasonably
accurate database that could be used to generate "tourist maps"?

 

TIA.
Dave Nuttall

San Antonio, TX

 

  

 

 

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