<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> I do not known how open Google is to derivatives, they have some of the best resources for topos nowadays, and at least for the area involved near La Paz those maps are usable.  Anyway, for a game we do not need anything strictly "real".  One of the excitements of doing many of the Inca Roads is the many ecological levels you cross, and that can be simulated and does not need to correspond strictly with a topo.  Taking the Takesi Inca Road from La Paz you climb up to a pass around 14.000 feet and then go walking down from there.  It's chilly, sharp, barren, lamas and sheep, a cobalt blue sky (and snow in winter), and then you get to an area with peat, and eventually it starts to green up.  Physically you can go from snow to lush tropical jungle in a single day. I have probably a thousand pictures of my time there.  Let's assume someone puts a structure together for a learning game, I probably have a picture that would fit anything there to show what a place looks like, excepting maybe wildlife. Now, if we could work with Sebastian and team to do a more Maya Quest kind of thing... Something that could connect US and otherworld people to what they will be doing in Peru (I hear they will even cross into Bolivia around July).  Hmm, Summer time.  Bummer.  Australia? As Kennedy said, "it is not that America has good roads because it is rich, it is rich because it has good roads".  The Inca roads cover what are now 5 countries, totaling thousands of miles, and this was the best network of roads in the world in the 15th century, all of it paved.  The Inca empire was *very* rich, though class inequality, very strict and ruler-centered policies inhibited progress and innovation, which eventually spelled out its doom. On 04/20/2010 09:23 AM, Elena of Valhalla wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:z2o5c5e5c351004200723wc94d8a30n9c4f7844c947685@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 4/20/10, Yamandu Ploskonka <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:yamaplos@bolinux.org"><yamaplos@bolinux.org></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">The best map I know is very copyright-ed and rather expensive (German). The original reason I purchased a GPS a few years back was to do the data pick-up so as to have a Free Inca Road map, at least for one of them in Bolivia. Another one of Yama's coma projects :-p </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Is there any aereal photography with permissive licensing available? If there is (and I know it's not that likely) the volounteers from the openstreetmap_ project could help tracing it, and their data could be used in a FOSS game unluckily, at a quick glance I don't think that there is already much data in the area _openstreetmap: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org">http://www.openstreetmap.org</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>