Re: [talk-au] Marking non-existent roads...

2009-08-12 Thread Liz
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: Does anyone have a suggestion on marking non-existent roads, so people don't waste time trying to map them? when you get to his area, non-existent roads are often roads into properties, and belong on the old Telstra database from which they were robbed,

Re: [talk-au] Marking non-existent roads...

2009-08-12 Thread Darrin Smith
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:41:10 +1000 Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: Does anyone have a suggestion on marking non-existent roads, so people don't waste time trying to map them? when you get to his area, non-existent roads are often roads into properties,

[talk-au] Marking non-existent roads...

2009-08-11 Thread John Smith
--- On Tue, 11/8/09, Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.com wrote: I was out mapping near Appin on Sunday and Google and the map in my consumer gps had large numbers of non existent roads - and getting to Tarago by TomTom was a disaster Does anyone have a suggestion on marking non-existent

Re: [talk-au] Marking non-existent roads...

2009-08-11 Thread John Smith
--- On Tue, 11/8/09, b.schulz...@scu.edu.au b.schulz...@scu.edu.au wrote: The UBD printed maps have a marking called untrafficable road (or something to that effect). Basically it's a designation for roads which are gazetted but don't exist. A quick search comes up with untrafficable

Re: [talk-au] Marking non-existent roads...

2009-08-11 Thread John Smith
--- On Tue, 11/8/09, b.schulz...@scu.edu.au b.schulz...@scu.edu.au wrote: There's a creek which runs through there, along with a ~10m high cliff face on the Northern side. I used to live in Knox Ave and spent much of my childhood exploring the bush around there. Also it looks like someone

Re: [talk-au] Marking non-existent roads...

2009-08-11 Thread Franc Carter
: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 12:10 pm Subject: Re: [talk-au] Marking non-existent roads... To: Ben Kelley ben.kel...@gmail.com Cc: talk-au@openstreetmap.org --- On Tue, 11/8/09, Ben Kelley ben.kel...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe something on a wiki page, but how do you know to look

Re: [talk-au] Marking non-existent roads...

2009-08-11 Thread b . schulz . 10
The cliff isn't really significant enough to mark in. I could fudge up the creek from memory, I guess. - Original Message - From: John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 1:25 pm Subject: Re: [talk-au] Marking non-existent roads... To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Marking non-existent roads...

2009-08-11 Thread John Smith
--- On Wed, 12/8/09, Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.com wrote: I heard an interesting story about the planning of early Sydney roads (I hope it wasn't on this list). The claim was that the roads were planned by someone sitting in London and drawing a straight line between two points . . .

Re: [talk-au] Marking non-existent roads...

2009-08-11 Thread John Smith
--- On Tue, 11/8/09, b.schulz...@scu.edu.au b.schulz...@scu.edu.au wrote: The UBD printed maps have a marking called untrafficable road (or something to that effect). Basically it's a designation for roads which are gazetted but don't exist. Does anyone have a problem with these roads being