why just map it? ... here's the real thing: http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&om=1&z=16&ll=-6.731823,146.996298&spn=0.01952,0.026951&t=k
jim On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Nick Hocking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Thats nufin - Google maps will navigate you right across the runway of > Avalon Airport.." > > They must have been practicing for mapping the runway at Gibraltar - at > least they got that one right. > The latest Sensis mapping has that error but the latest Navteq ones don't - > Strange. > > The accuracy on the commercial mapping varies wildly. In the Adelaide hills > the Sensis maps are excellent. I only found two tiny errors and they were > completely inconsequential. Elsewhere the mapping can be completely > useless. > > In Binalong, for example the Sensis maps are out by about 50 metres, which > means that your car navigation system never knows which street it is on. > Tathra had this problem (93 metres out) in the V13 release but the newer R14 > maps have been corrected. > > If the commercial mappers cared at all about accuracy (which I don't think > they do - Yet) they have the perfect tool available to address the problem > (OSM). > > All they have to do is compare their maps to the OSM data, and where they > are different, they send someone out to see who got it right. > > Talking of accuracy - I mapped two streets in Yass and I think that I've got > one of them wrong. I must have either misread the street sign or I have made > a typo whilst editing. Does anyone have authoritave information (from a non > copyrighted source) of the correct name for what I've tagged as Ross > Street. (I think it may well be Rossi Street). > > Nick > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > > -- _________________ Jim Croft [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality." - Joseph Conrad, author (1857-1924) _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
