Is this feasible?

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Check out: http://www.openstreetmap.org/

Dave Nuttall wrote:
> 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.
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> 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 
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> 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.
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> Does anyone on the list know of similar efforts to create a reasonably 
> accurate database that could be used to generate “tourist maps”?
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> TIA.
> Dave Nuttall
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> San Antonio, TX
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