Re: [talk-au] Incorrect entry to BP service station

[Richard Colless]

John Smith wrote: 2010/1/13 Richard Colless <fire...@ar.com.au>: I've been looking at dozens of POI's, mainly servos, over the last few weeks, checking that mapped locations match with reality. I have yet to find a single one that's actually on a road. The POI location is usually mapped to the middle of the main building. Depends if they've been re-positioned or not, when I was updating the positions after the BP import there were all sorts of obviously wrong locations, middle of highways 20km out of Moree, middle of roundabouts etc... Most of the ones I've looked at have been positioned properly - the location matches something I can see on Yahoo, or check on a drive-by. (A few were obvious mistakes). The point is, they don't sit on roads, yet most of them can be navigated to. I think the exception in St Marys is because the street entrance is ambiguous. That could mean an ambiguity in every corner servo. I'll try another corner one at first opportunity. Still doesn't explain why John Henderson got good routing on the Nuvi. Something wrong in creating the OSM Australia maps? Richard C.

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