So.. I spent ~9 months personally cycling almost every street in Newcastle and the Lower Hunter Valley to name and detail.. and it’s all been nuked because Biogenesis’ yahoo-tracing wasn’t brought forward to the new database. Thanks a lot, Mate.
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So.. I spent ~9 months personally cycling almost every street in Newcastle and the Lower Hunter Valley to name and detail.. and it’s all been nuked because Biogenesis’ yahoo-tracing wasn’t brought forward to the new database. Thanks a lot, Mate.
Discussion
Comment from EdLoach on 23 July 2012 at 16:49
I mentioned this on numbfew’s recent diary entry, but just in case did you know about http://rebuild.poole.ch/job/9 which covers Newcastle, which can be used to co-ordinate remapping, or at least cover the area fairly systematically. I’m afraid for the squares I’ve been given I can only trace the missing roads from aerial imagery, but hopefully this will help when you come to add names back.
Comment from Pink Duck on 23 July 2012 at 20:37
Was any consideration given to the reaction bot for retaining clean tags from agreeing users of ways deleted through loss of all nodes?
If so, a technique like the ITO OS OpenData Locator site could then be used to roughly show prior tags for rectangular areas for future road remapping. Though that does require two points based on the original node locations, which might not be possible given the re-licensing requirements. That could be averaged into a single point, though that might also be considered to be derivative.
Failing that, I just hope that some of the original notes were retained from the original survey to assist in rebuilding the map.