OpenStreetMap
At short notice I had a trip to Tara, first opportunity in a year to survey the area..
Managed 99% of the towns streets was able to correct the Surat Development road from the Moonie Hwy to Tara,(Previous was from Yahoo - as was most in that area) as well surveyed tara-Kogan road and Kogan-Warra Road.. just have to tidy the map now.. Now to add a few of the local services..
The Yahoo imagery is not that good for this part of the world, I was surprised with the low errors with the main roads (luck and a little local knowledge)
My next out of town survey will be a quick trip to chinchilla.. I don't expect much time to drive or walk around.. but hope to add a few more streets - I think I am only 20% mapped there atm. and really need to add a few of the local services..
BTW: It is annoying that an error can display on the tile servers in less than an hour, but the correction will take more than a week?
Discussion
Comment from mannequinZOD on 4 October 2009 צו 14:06
nope, the tiles get rendered almost right away. You should save the location as a permalink and refresh (or delete your Browser cache). You don't see the changes, since the old tiles are still cached.
Comment from JohnSmith on 4 October 2009 צו 14:19
yahoo sat imagery might be low res, but since Tuesday we have Qld property boundaries to play with, which includes gaps for roads, rail and water ways etc... Not 100% perfect, but neither is sat imagery, but it comes in very handy as a secondary source to help with GPS inaccuracies etc.
Comment from JohnSmith on 4 October 2009 צו 14:28
I took a screen shot of Tara with the property boundary layer loaded in the background:
http://map-data.bigtincan.com/data/tara.png
Comment from cybercrypt on 5 October 2009 צו 13:01
OK that's it.. a cheap lappy and a Wireless Card.. just so I can use JOSM.. I am only doing a 5% job... and with the property boundries.. ...