GPS maps of Venezuela, Peru, Colombia and Central America
This is a collaborative project for the creation and updating of maps for GPS navigators. 
It was born in Venezuela but has gradually expanded to other Hispanic countries at a time when mobile applications have become popular and accessible to the Internet.
I liked one of the stories published in a Venezuelan newspaper about this project, about what it was like to give a rural address before positioning technologies. This is an adapted version:
You go through the paved road, turn right where there is a Quebracho tree next to a locking door ...
Each 100 meters there is a Quebracho tree, if we associate it ... and as if the gate of bolts was a standard.
You go through a gazebo and there you cross ...
Glorieta, roundabout ... in Central America, a roundabout is called a booth where they sell soft drinks and sweets. A two UTM roundabout zones are called the intersection of several roads. 14 degrees below that is what they call a garden ... and the crusader thing is like cutting your veins in the Middle Ages.
Then, there you follow the cobblestone road, between two fences of barbs, and when you reach a junction, you take the one that has the side of izote ...
Izote, izote, that will be that, it must be like the chagüite ...
Then you will pass through a section that there are many trees ...
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You follow, and you must be careful to turn right where there is an abandoned old refrigerator ...
One day the Guanacos spent collecting scrap metal for recycling and that was the exact point of the address. The mayor even received a request from the tourism commission to place a refrigerator in poor condition in that place to avoid confusion.
Today with browsers everything has changed, from those used for the vehicle as the applications that can be downloaded to a mobile phone or an Ipad tablet. This route project is a great contribution to the community of users who like this type of hobbies and carry a Garmin on the board all the time, also to avoid problems when making a trip to the unknown of the tropical lands .
You have to get inside, to see everything that the community has contributed, because you have to find the tricks involved in updating a version on your mobile and the maps do not apply to all models. But it must be recognized that initiatives like these are valuable for their collaborative value.
I leave some forum comments and contact messages that make the project speak for themselves.
Venrut
This is the name of the project in Venezuela, a country where mobile Internet access has left the Spanish-speaking common denominator. Since it started in 2003, it is well advanced in terms of maps, points of interest and even information on routes for 4 × 4 vehicles and excursion trails.
Honestly, the Venrut is one of the best GPS maps in the world, and I've compared them. Congratulations on an excellent AAA job.
Alex KMiami, FL
Perut
This is the name of the project in Peru, it is very advanced and detailed. Also the community of this country is active in these subjects by nature.
A brief review of 3.10: Like its predecessors, this map totally kicks ass.
It's more accurate and reliable than Google maps. And it's surprising just how often it could find the most efficient way to negotiate the maze-like "zona urbanas" of Peru no matter how far off the grid you think you are.Kudos to Perut.org for its amazing work.
Colrut
This is in Colombia, it is slower than that of Venezuela and Peru but it has great potential in this country where rural roads are really a challenge. Also for now the limited design, with an annoying glitter effect that makes you want to close the page.
First of all, congratulations on such an excellent project. I'm from Medellin and I'm using colrut 11.4.2 on a Nüvi 1390T, the map works quite well. I tell you that I am very interested in providing locations and complementing some streets that are not laid out, so I am writing you to tell me how I can help you complete the map (at least the one in Medellín).
Cenrut
This is more recent, barely a year old but it has grown very fast because it covers routable maps of Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama and Belize. The portal is built on a forum application, which gives it a certain advantage of interaction and control over other countries.
They recently added a layer of contour lines to each 50 meter, which added to the statistics that included:
70,771 kilometers of roads
1,125 Service Stations
1,067 ATM and / or Bank Services
2615 Stores
928 Schools and / or Universities
2369 Places to Eat
Excellent, excellent, excellent!
I just installed the CenRut 24 on my Nüvi 265 and it works perfectly. I will use lots as we go to Easter in Boquete to visit a friend.
I discovered that, like "ñapa", are also the maps of Nicaragua. We have family in Managua and in Chichigalpa, so that will not do.
They do not know how happy I am, and how easy the installation was. If you need anything from Ticolandia, let me know.
In good time for the work initiated by David, and now administered in each country Ivo, Carlos and Willy.
