Re: [talk-au] What's going on here? (mysterious street)

2010-08-22 Thread Tom Brennan
In NSW you can often check up unformed roads on council web sites. There are oodles of them shown in Google that don't currently exist in reality. Compare http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8hq=ll=-33.777168,150.627912spn=0.006269,0.009645z=17 with

[talk-au] What's going on here? (mysterious street)

2010-08-19 Thread Steve Bennett
Hi all, For my own education, could someone attempt to guess what's going on here: http://goo.gl/maps/lBqP Specifically, Ward Rd. I see no trace of it on NearMap (http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-37.897085,145.391838z=18t=hnmd=20100711), and I couldn't find it when I rode through there the other

Re: [talk-au] What's going on here? (mysterious street)

2010-08-19 Thread Ben Last
There's something else like that here: http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=qsource=s_qhl=engeocode=q=sll=-31.857129,115.761244sspn=0.016767,0.025814ie=UTF8ll=-31.857129,115.761244spn=0.016767,0.025814z=16 That Coghill Street doesn't exist and hasn't ever existed (the whole of Star Swamp is preserved

Re: [talk-au] What's going on here? (mysterious street)

2010-08-19 Thread John Smith
On 20 August 2010 11:28, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: copyright-trap; if it showed up in an external database it'd be evidence of copying. It could also have been a gazetted road that was never built... ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] What's going on here? (mysterious street)

2010-08-19 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all,  For my own education, could someone attempt to guess what's going on here: Specifically, Ward Rd. I see no trace of it on NearMap and I couldn't find it when I rode through there the other night. Well, ok,

Re: [talk-au] What's going on here? (mysterious street)

2010-08-19 Thread Evan Sebire
I think google and melways obtained their Victorian base maps from landvic, http://services.land.vic.gov.au/maps/interactive.jsp Then they go about fixing up the street use, that is why melways has a much better map because they have been modifying it for many more years. In this case Ward

Re: [talk-au] What's going on here? (mysterious street)

2010-08-19 Thread Christoph Donges
South of Toowoomba are heaps of roads on google that don't exist when you go there. On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Evan Sebire e...@sebire.org wrote: I think google and melways obtained their Victorian base maps from landvic, http://services.land.vic.gov.au/maps/interactive.jsp Then they