It's Australia Day, so we set out to put more of Australia on the map.
We started our mapping activities in Narrandera, with a walk up and down the main street photographing POIs. Then off to Grong Grong, Matong and Ganmain to finish off some mapping we'd started there over a year ago. Streets completed in two villages and one small town, back to Narrandera for fuel and then up the Narrandera Barellan road because the southern end had only been traced from Landsat. From there west up Colinroobie Road, then took another road north which wasn't on OSM and on the sat-nav (Sensis origin map) had no name.
Only about 3km back to the main road and the car decided to stop. Here the fun started, as the fuel line was broken and we needed a tilt tray truck to transport the car home (this is the middle of nowhere, but not technically Outback like yesterday).
The lady on the phone 500km away in Sydney has to work out where we are, but our road isn't on her map at all, on our sat-nav it has no name, and she can't work out to where to send the truck from the GPS co-ordinates. I know the name of the road, Middle Road, but that doesn't help anyone because that name doesn't appear on anyone's map - mine, the lady in Sydney's map or the truck driver's map.
Eventually all goes well and over the phone we can explain to the truck driver how to find us.
Interestingly the mtkbabel chip in the recording gps shows a maximum range of 7m for the hour and a half it stayed in one spot. We haven't yet checked the results from the Garmin for that time.
This spot is still a blank on OSM, but soon a road will be there, and then someone else may benefit from our adventurous afternoon.