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A good chunk of Newcastle is now traced

Publicat per Biogenesis_ el 15 Agost 2008 en English.

Well, everything North and East of Lake Macquarie is traced in anyway. There are sections of bushland West of the lake (South of West Wallsend) which haven't been marked in yet either.

My next task will concentrate on marking in as much of the bushland West of the F3 as is feasible.

All I can say so far is: That was Epic. Several thousand nodes a night for about a week and finally most of Newcastle is done.

My ground surveying is going to concentrate on paved cycleways and bush tracks. A lot of bush tracks (particularly MTB and dirt bike trails) tend to be made by civilians and so are mostly undocumented on any "official" maps.

Street name collection will probably happen at some stage, but I'd love to get some help for that one! Hopefully somebody in the region will see the map so far and think "wow, maybe this will be useful someday".

The one thing to keep telling yourself is "once it's mapped it's mapped", so the map can only get better :).

Another low priority job would be to mark landuse=residential, but it just makes the map look cool and isn't a great navigational aid.

Ubicació: Glendale, Newcastle-Maitland, City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, 2285, Australia
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Comentari de petdr el 19 Agost 2008 a les 07.49

Great job.

It's the mtb and bike trails which I was interested in. So will be watching your work with interest, so the next time I'm up in Newcastle I can discover some new tracks.

Comentari de Biogenesis_ el 19 Agost 2008 a les 13.41

Well Glenrock is basically done, there's probably a few minor downhill singletracks that aren't in there but quite often they're overgrown anyway.

I'll be concentrating on what's close to home but will hopefully move further afield in time. If there are any areas you're interested in I can concentrate on them.

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