Hi Terry, thanks for your comments again, glad to have a lively debate; I appreciate your point about resources - It took me over three years to single handedly cover the whole island, and the map was produced on a kitchen table using very primitive draughting materials (Pencils, pens and crayons - not a computer or satellite photo in sight), so I really got to know the island of Corfu quite intimitely - which is quite an advantage to actually being there on the ground. The GPS at the time (In the mid 1990s) was still purposefully degraded by the Americans for "security reasons" and was on average, only accurate to about 200 meters, whereas today it will place you within about a meter. That was why I took hundreds of readings averaged out over a few days to try and pinpoint important locations on the map, such as the positions of villages, and major road junctions.
I'll admit that it is far from perfect, and in comparing my road layouts with those seen on the high resolution Google Earth pictures in the north east, the limitations of my GPS system do show up, but, and it really is a big but, the actual existence of the roads I show is confirmed, even if their actual positon is not as accurate as I hoped. (I really look forward to Google Earth coverage of the rest of Corfu as you no doubt do too) I did conciously in fact somewhat exaggerate the curves and bends in relation to the scale of the map in order to give a more subjective feeling to the roads. Looking at those satellite images, some of the roads are in fact much straighter than I had portrayed, but they certainly don't feel that way when you are driving along them, with hedgerows or sheer precipices to the sides.
I can't compete with the big boys for resources, but resources don't always mean better - look at the Big names in maps, and their maps of the island are very sketchy and out-of-date, hence the public dissatisfaction with them.
I can see that we are probably going to have to agree to disagree on which is the best map (I certainly am biased towads mine, surprise, surprise), but you mention that you'd rather have a map that shows all
of the roads and tracks so that you can choose which to use yourself. I am 100% in favour of that, but can you really,unequivocally state that all of the surfaced roads (even just in the Arillas area) shown on the Editions map do actually exist? A far as I can see, even accounting for unsurfaced roads that have been tarmaced in the intervening years, there are still a few extra ones on the Editions, and the junction layouts seem far from correct. (Hence, perhaps why you initially ended up in Roda.)
I'm not looking for an argument in this, but would genuinely like to resolve this issue about "ghost" roads and the quality of Corfu maps in general. There certainly are many differences between the Editions map and mine even in the relatively small area around Arillas. From hundreds of reports I have received from people who have explored this area using my map who found their way about without any problems, I can't understand how I have "missed" all those other roads.
Of course, ultimately, everyone will have their favourite maps, and it depends on how thoroughly you like to explore, but I shall upload a section from my map so that people can compare and make up their own minds. It would be really good to get some feedback here from people who know the area intimately.
PS Google Earth at present only show a small area touching North east Corfu and the Kanoni peninsula. The detail though is fantastic. I really look forward to seeing coverage of the rest of the island, hopefully it won't be too long, so I can explore Corfu all over again, from the comfort of home, at any time.
Stephan