== Welcome, Visitor! ==

I am happy to find OSM as an alternative Stuff for Google. So i can design as a coder my card as i want and add data to it. The most biggest
Places in the world - especially Europe are almost complete. But: I am not living in Europe - i live in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

Over here the maps are horrible; Street names are missing and even signs for street don't exists on all places. POI (Point of interests) are
not added so i decided to correct those datas, add missing streets by GPS Waytrack and more. As i will use the map data for me too

I will mainly add and edit all streets in the near of Salvador (Camaçari, Monte Gordo, Arembepe up to Mata do São Jaoa, Jauá and around.
As Salvador has just a bit and Lauro de Freitas almost no public streets in OSM i will add them when i find time to waytrack them.

When i add POI they exists. That does not mean in Brazil that they will exist tomorrow (like everywhere on the world). Thats why i just POI
stores which are on the place a long time and no fresh small stores where you don't know if they exist tomorrow.

The time i invest on OSM will vary. Small places like Monte Gordo is not even in my GPS Reciever with newest Navteq Map. So OSM will be - at
a time to come a bit closer than them.. As i do not have a car i will track by foot or by bus.

The biggest roads in Salvadore are done but anyway: There are a lot of missing smaller roads which is a lot of work for a
big city like Salvador. Even any kind of small roads in Lauro de Freitas are done (expect of the Main road, the so called
"Estrada do Coco" - The coconut road). I will add some streets when i will be over there again and track the route and Point
of Interests.

Cuyrrently i added a lot of POI for Guarajuba, Monte Gordo and Salvador. Next week Lauro de Freitas will follow - at least the main street.

== Looking for ppl in Salvador ==

Somebody living in Salvador or close is welcome to join me to map and waytrack Salvador, Lauro de Freitas, Guarajuba, Monte Gordo, Praia do Forte,
Jauá and Arembepe. When done start over in Camaçari, as the data over there is very spare...

Don't forget to stop on every Baraca (for english speaking user: It's a small and improvisated bar) to have a beer and POI it :-)

== Prooving Data ==

To approve all data i use GPS Maps with Navteq (on my Nokia) and a just normal map of Salvador (1:14.000)

== Nature to add ==
The Lagoon which stretches almost 20 km from Arembepe isn't mapped. I would need to add it but find an open source data to use it. I hope
i will find one, as i can not measure it myself - just because it's not allowed to swim :-)