Submit Your Travel Experience to Tracks4Africa
The T4A GPS Maps are built from the collective travel experience of the
travelling community. Anyone can join and contribute to the map.
How can you help?
The maps are constantly evolving and you can assist by contributing
your travel experience, be it for business or pleasure. The following are
common types of contributions, but please do not feel restricted by
it.
- GPS trackpoints, tracks and waypoints - send us the GPS files
- Place markers - if you mark a place in Google Earth
- Photos - upload direct to our website against a known point of
interest
- Comments - make a comment about a place on our website
- Descriptions - submit a description or contact details for a place
on our maps
- General corrections - find a mistake, just let us know please
Data Collection
If you use a GPS to record the roads you have travelled and mark the
places you have visited, then you can send us these by downloading your
data to a computer and saving the files in a known GPS format. We prefer
GPX or GDB. Thereafter, you can submit your GPS data online or via
email.
Once your data is processed and included in a new version of
our maps, you will be asked to download this Garmin compatible map and
check that your data has been processed to your liking.
For more information on how to collect data you can read our document
on the
standards for field data collection
or even join our
discussion forum.
Online Submissions
You can upload your new GPS data
online.
When you submit your trip, Trackpoints, Tracks and Waypoints will get
processed and officially fed into the Tracks4Africa office workflow.
Thereafter, we will email you regarding the status of the submission. If
the submission is successful we will issue you the submission ID to
reference the trip.
Please give your submission a brief title and a detailed
description.
If you have a photo of an existing listing on our maps, then you can
simply search for this place in Padkos and
upload the photo directly to the point of interest.
If you have other material to submit which you cannot upload here
then please email it to newdata@tracks4africa; quoting the submission ID you receive via email.
Email Submissions
App Submissions
Use our
Tracks4Africa Guide App
to send map corrections and checkins to Tracks4Africa.
Compatible with Android and iOS.
The app will geolocate waypoints and places around you, and via the App menu
you can do check-ins at places near you, or send in corrections, like a road
correction or a new place, send us a photo etc.
Note that you will be able to use this functionality in our basic app which
is for free.
The app allows in-app purchases of Point-Of-Interest data per region, as
well as a detailed underlying map
You can also download your planned trips from our
Trip Planning website
into the app, to follow along while you are driving.
