I think google and melways obtained their Victorian base maps from landvic, http://services.land.vic.gov.au/maps/interactive.jsp Then they go about fixing up the street use, that is why melways has a much better map because they have been modifying it for many more years.
In this case Ward road is still on landvic as a government easement so may get developed in the future and is not private property (unless we are talking about something different). In my neighbourhood which isn't to far away from Kallista a neighbour has built a shed on government land reserved of a road and erected a fence to block people. Directly above his shed are powerlines that run down the easement beside the land reserved for the road! This all get back to a discussion on this list about 12 months ago about mapping non-existing roads/gazetted road, Evan On Friday 20 August 2010 11:22:44 Steve Bennett wrote: > Hi all, > For my own education, could someone attempt to guess what's going on > here: > > http://goo.gl/maps/lBqP > > Specifically, Ward Rd. I see no trace of it on NearMap > (http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-37.897085,145.391838&z=18&t=h&nmd=20100711), > and I couldn't find it when I rode through there the other night. > > Well, ok, you can kind of see the outline of something that once might > have been a road, but it's just grass. But at Grantulla Rd, StreetView > shows what I saw: three driveways, all clearly private property. > > Even Melway has it: > http://www.street-directory.com.au/sd_new/mapsearch.cgi?star=5&heading=&x=1 > 45.39312095760306&ftsSearch=ward%20rd%20kallista&y=-37.89649631015688&level > =6&StateID=1 > > They show it as dashed, but I'm not sure what that means. > > Anyway, is this likely a road that used to exist, an error...something > else? > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
