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..
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awesm ਵੱਲੋਂ 11:27 ਤੇ 5 ਜੁਲਾਈ 2009 'ਤੇ ਟਿੱਪਣੀ
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.
Biogenesis_ ਵੱਲੋਂ 12:41 ਤੇ 5 ਜੁਲਾਈ 2009 'ਤੇ ਟਿੱਪਣੀ
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!