OpenStreetMap
Went for a short drive this afternoon. The new estate of "Flemington gardens" is now open to vehicular traffic. So my chance to map the newest housing estate in the town.
Other than a need now to go back and re-survey some areas of the town to check the accuracy of my work I can now say that the township is 99.9%.. until the next estate gets started or a stage 2 or 3 or 5..
I am now moving my focus to the many country roads.. but not so sure as to how much will be done before I move to my next job.
A quick trip to see our new grandson next week will see a chance to add to the towns of Miles, Chinchilla and Wandoan.. with these it is now side streets and out of the way roads.. I hope to improve on some of the ways created from the "Yahoo" imagery - shocking resolution - not even good for marking Rail lines and Airports, let alone roads or - dread - streets..
Discussion
Comment from awesm on 5 July 2009 at 11:27
Ah, good to see some rural activity a-happening. My sense is that Australia has a lot of mapping outside the big cities left to do. We've thought about a posse from Brisbane attacking somewhere like Warwick or Toowoomba, but unfortunately Dalby and further are not really practical day trips from the capitals. Thus, your efforts are really valued.
Comment from Biogenesis_ on 5 July 2009 at 12:41
It would be nice to get a feel for this progress. Like have a wiki page which lists all of the towns in a state (maybe already compiled in Wikipedia?) and sorts them into something like: completely blank, major highway only, highway and some streets, all streets surveyed + named, all streets plus many POI's.
Good luck with the country roads...It's a lot of work!