OpenStreetMap
While it IS true that Georgetown sometimes gets flooded after heavy rains... this wasn't quite what I expected to see on the map.
Below I'm showing Georgetown in the OSMarender layer, the east side of the town is rendered with no coastline, it started after an update I made in JOSM this morning where I added Bel Air and several ways in that area. Not sure if it's a 0.6 api and JOSM bug, or something I did.
On investigating in JOSM the coastline shows up and seems unchanged, the Mapnik layer has been updated and shows Bel Air with the new ways and the coastline looks fine.
On reflection I DID adjust the coastline since it appeared that the main highway was going out into the ocean, I grabbed a few nodes and scooted then North until there was a clear gap between the highway and the ocean. Not sure why that messed up OSMarender. Also bizarre is the perfectly rectangular shape it makes as if the nodes somehow got chopped off in a bounding box somewhere.
Strange,
-Don.
P.S. The diary map doesn't save which rendering layer I'm using so you'll have to manually change to OSMarender to see it.
Discussion
Comment from Wynndale on 5 May 2009 at 17:47
How does OSM compare to other maps of Guyana?
Comment from donaciano on 7 May 2009 at 00:34
I'm not sure I understand your question. Openstreetmap is 100x better than both Google Maps and Microsoft Maps in the Georgetown area. They have more cities marked in the interior than OSM, but that's only because I haven't been there yet. ;)
Comment from Wynndale on 8 May 2009 at 18:04
If it’s the best online map of Georgetown, you could try to promote it locally. You’ll probably get more volunteers and might even find someone willing to put their dataset in.