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I had a look at Google Maps and its a but f*****
up.
It appears that they did some sort of automatic road
detection from aerial photo's but they have included all sorts of junk such
as farm tracks and so forth. There is even one section where they have put in
medium strip, which I think is due to a hedge.
Here is a link of Scotsman Valley Road (where I grew up in
the Waikato).
Google - F**** up
Zoomin - Pretty good but the linking isn't very good
so you'll have to pan left a bit.
Turn on Aerial photos to see the farm tracks that Google is
putting in as roads.
TUMONZ also showed the right stuff, but I couldn't figure
out how to create a link to the specific location.
Zoomin and TUMONZ are also showing a few farm tracks (but
displayed as thin dark lines so obviously tracks) that are on private property.
Some even give the impression that you can get from one road to another,
but you would have to climb electric fences and dodge bulls to do
so. I wonder what the point of showing them is?
Stacey
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Conor Boyd
Sent: Thursday, 25 May 2006 15:14 To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: RE: [DUG] TUMONZ SDK beta program I'm not dissing TUMONZ Online in any way, but www.zoomin.co.nz and http://maps.google.com both have street map
information for NZ (Google just got updated this week),
Alan.
C. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Rose
Hey nice work Phil. I've
now bookmarked this as my new favourite online map. I've been house hunting
lately and having a online map has been real handy finding locations. Perhaps
you could get some sort of hook-up with real-estate websites (trademe
etc)
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Phil Middlemiss
Do you like the interface on the TUMONZ Live mapplet (www.tumonz.co.nz/mapplet.php)? We
are overhauling the whole TUMONZ interface for version 3 and using the mapplet
navigation style. One thing we have realised as TUMONZ 2 has grown - it has
become difficult to use cause we just added stuff to it all the time. We are
spending a lot of time on getting the GUI right this time so if you want to be
part of the beta program, any feedback you can provide will be
welcome.
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