South of Toowoomba are heaps of roads on google that don't exist when you go there.
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Evan Sebire <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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