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Road trip to Boondooma Dam along D'Aguilar highway
Posted by chas678 on 31 December 2009 in English.Road trip out along the D'Aguilar highway to Boondooma Dam to see the campers has meant I bagged some more useful GPX traces. Managed to get some of the streets of Proston mapped, then Beer and fish and chips at Hivesville pub courtesy of Eric and Denise. Hivesville BP station is present and correct (reviewed some others from BP.com bulk import along the way).
I have tried to map bridges along the D'Aguilar highway as I went and have marked them on the map.
I also took a side trip to Emu Creek/Clancys camping area south of Blackbutt/Benarkin to get the 16km road through the forest mapped along with the camp areas themselves:
osm.org/go/ueFOJxmc
But something is wrong with the tagging at Emu Creek I think though, the campsite is not rendering.
Some standout points were the old timber bridge across Sunday creek on the Gayndah-Hivesville road is really pretty, quite out of the way:
osm.org/go/uc7y3tJS4--
maybe a good place for a GeoCaching cache ?
Hivesville pub is great as always.
Some unanswered questions :
How do you tag an ambulance station? Fire and Police are catered for, but not ambo?
BP think they have two stations in Kilcoy, I could only find 1.
The BP station at Blackbutt also proved elusive, couldn't find that one either.
Discussion
Comment from AshKyd on 31 December 2009 at 03:48
I don't think there is a specific tag for ambulance stations. It's not as major a waypoint as a hospital or doctor's surgery, so I guess it makes sense. If nobody else knows I guess we can make one up I guess, but it's probably not a major issue. :)
In the past I've merely noted their address information and tagged them as a normal house node with the Karlsruhe Schema, so while it doesn't render on the map, it's still searchable by address if anyone needs to find it. :)
Comment from drlizau on 31 December 2009 at 04:12
We've discussed this a bit on the mailing list but not made any firm conclusions. I have used emergency_service=ambulance.
Comment from Skippern on 31 December 2009 at 10:04
I support the idea of emergency_service= tags, that opens for the highway services that exists along some of the highways in Brazil, where a duty mechanic and a towtruck is present also. Could be good to have these on the map as that is places you can stop by if you have some mechanical trouble with your vehicle (not that they will not fix it if spare parts are needed, but can easily help you get dirt out of a fuel filter, tighten bolts, etc.)