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Small town mapping project

Posted by spatialguru on 2 April 2008 in English.

I'm mapping the town of Williams Lake, British Columbia, Canada. After uploading my tracks and adding my roads I like to see how it looks compared to some of the online commercial options. It's always satisfying to see errors in commercial road data when mine is right :) I've already found at least 3 gross errors that my map _won't_ have (especially roads going over water or through buildings). Here's one road I won't want to take (see imagery):
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.119953,-122.121813&spn=0.003538,0.009999&t=h&z=17

Location: Williams Lake, Cariboo Regional District, British Columbia, Canada