OpenStreetMap

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Open Street Maps show many 'Tertiary' Roads not shown on Google Maps.

However Open Street Maps did not feature and roads in between Barili-Carcar Road and Dumanjug-Sibonga Road.

So I have added the Vegetable Highway from the Barili-Carcar Road to the Dumanjug-Sibonga Road. I also added a back road off Dumanjug-Sibonga Road, into Barili Town Center.

I later took a road off the Vegetable Highway, that connected to the Carcar Barili Road @ Dakit.

Google Maps have it connecting in the wrong place. There is no hi-resolution Satellite image but I have GPS track to confirm my intersection is in the correct place on my Edit to Open Street Maps.

I use Sports Tracker application on my Nokia N958Gb. Whilst it has an internal GPS I do not want to strap my Nokia N95 to the handlebars of my Motorbike, so I connect via Bluetooth to Wintec WBT-201 'G-Rays2' GPS logger.

Google Maps might look better, but lot of the Roads shown in Cebu Philippines (and probably elsewhere in the Philippines also), where these is not high resolution satellite images, the Roads are not accurate at all.

I did try editing Google Maps, after signing up to Google Map Maker, but it really bad and tedious to do any edits since Junctions cant be edited at same time as changes to existing Roads. You have to wait until a change is approved, before continuing with the Edit.

Whilst OpenStreetMaps might not have the detail of Google Maps, and as many Roads shown, the accuracy is very much better (presumably since Contributors work fro, Garmin GPS Tracks?

I have a Nokia N95 8GB, which does have an internal GPS. I tend to use an external Bluetooth GPS Logger (Wintec G-Rays2)so my N95 can also store the GPS Track to Sports Tracker application. This lets me export as Google Earth .KML format or as GARMIN .GPX format, or as .XML or as CSV format.

I was invited to a friends house in Balamban on Saturday, and travelled via the Tabunok - Toledo Route, then up to Balamban. We stayed @ Sailors Cabin Lodge, 3Km from Balamban. this Brit friend lives down this dirt track, that then becomes concrete, leading to Shell refinery. We then went to a German Restaurant Zwiebels, that has the location on Wikimapia, but does not show the track of how to get there.

We returned to Talisay City via the Trans Central Highway.

I only had to do some minor edits (mainly adding few more points to smooth curves) and to align with my GPS Track (The Wintec GPS Logger, set to record on time interval and change of direction by more than 2 degrees)