Nick Hocking wrote: > Thanks, I still don't know what I was doing wrong but I can now show > this to some people at work who are showing a lot of interest, in > openstreepmap, hence my other questions about navit and gosmore.
Using routable maps to suggest routes across town is a great way of finding things that need to be fixed. > They were also very interested in whether we had speed limits on all the > roads. There's very little of that in my neck of the woods. And few multi-lane divided road sections have a lane count specified. I've read that the "lanes=n" tag on these can influence routing. > There are still some roads between the highway and Yass valley way to > be mapped but I only dive dirt roads these days just prior to a service > of my car so that they can replace all the air filters etc. There's a lot to be done, all over the place. I'm retired, and have an older friend who likes to have a weekly drive from Canberra into the country. We take his SUV, and he appreciates making a positive contribution by seeking out and mapping a couple of new roads each trip. He has a Garmin GPS in his car, and finds the OSM maps I provide him much more accurate than the official Garmin/Sensis maps. These are often out by hundreds of metres on dirt roads, as well as being out-of-date. Sometimes I go back alone to do the more tedious "fill in" of roads which are residential, or don't in the direction we want. John _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
