OpenStreetMap
Guarapari is coming along quite well. Or rather it have come to a point when I have to make plans and detours to gather more GPS tracks. It is almost impossible for me to drive somewhere and get on a new road without starting to make detours. Centro is now as complete as I can get it without gathering street level data on foot, same also for Parque Areia Preta, Muquiçaba, and Praia do Morro. There might be a few roads in the other suburbs, but it is hard to say as the maps I have to compare with are of a bad quality (old data, inaccurate data, or plainly wrong). The other suburbs are places I generally don't go, either because they are very far off the roads I use, or because they are somewhat dangerous to enter.
For gathering data further off, we plan for weekend trips, we have a few in the view, but no concrete plans at the moment. But we will most likely go to Devino São Lorenço, Mimisa do Sul and Saquareem in the near futurem that might tie in a few more roads.
I am trying to figure out how to import data from AutoCAD .dwg files. At the moment I am sitting on a very up to date .dwg drawing of Vitoria, and I guess I can get the same type of data out of Vila Velha and Guarapari too. I will start a project to gather this type of data from all municipals in Espirito Santo as soon as I know how to get it from the .dwg to osm. I will focus at one municipal at a time (and since it is 84 of them, it might take some years to get through, though I have one other on the team at the moment. We might need more hands on the team.
Discussion
Comment from Unusual User Name on 21 October 2009 at 01:52
You could try using GPS Utility (it costs about US$60) to get the data into OSM.
There's a free, file size limited version you could use first to see if it will do the job.
I've used it to change Mapinfo data into GPX for import.
(I had to use Mapinfo MIF format because GPS Utility didn't deal well with TAB format)
GPS utility won't deal directly with dwg, but if you can get it into another format that it uses (http://www.gpsu.co.uk/functions.html) you can get to gpx from there.
Comment from Skippern on 21 October 2009 at 04:06
Unfortunately GPS Utility is only available for Windows, which makes it completely useless (or f***in expensive) to use. I need something that works in Mac or Linux as that is the two platforms I have available.