"Encouraging on a quality contol level" HI Darren,
Please excuse me for taking your quote a bit out of context but.... My concern is if someone traces a road from Yahoo, and then it gets tagged from a source other than the street signs then the road is complete but has never been surveyed. Yahoo hi-res imagery is sometime over two years out of date and roads that seem to be there are non existant. Also these old directories don't appear to have any of the one way streets in central Adelaide marked as such. Therefore once they are traced and tagged, thats it, they will remain incorrect until someone using the Garmin routable maps is directed up the wrong way. Then either that person will sign up to OSM, just to fix this road or more likely will just say, Well OSM's worse than Sensis or PSMA and go back to the better maps. Morialta Street (near Victoria Square) appears to have already suffered this fate. There are no public gps tracks so I can only assume it has been traced. Google street view, google maps and sensis mapping all indicate that it is a one way road but to use this to add a oneway tag would unfortunately be copyright infringement. It will be interesting to see what happens to its neighbour "Trades Hall Lane". If necessary I'll try to survey all the one way streets in central Adelaide, but I won't be able to do it till Christmas, Gawler Place is marked as one way for part of its length but google street view seems to indicate that it should be one way right through to Grenfell rather than just Pirie. Next door Wyatt is missing its oneway tag. I appears that I'm going to be busy this december, but hey, it was the lack of marked one way streets (in Monterey California- Teleatlas mapping) than really got me motivated to contribute to OSM so I'm more than happy to drive down the very smallest one way roads that I can find. (Gotta find a hire car with a really good turning circle !!)
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