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Wamboin, NSW - streets complete

Posted by mos6510 on 1 October 2007 in English.

I've just completed Wamboin, NSW Australia streets.
Still working on Kurri Kurri (more surveying required!)

I notice people are creating ways without names in the Canberra area, especially Royalla and Deakin. Why bother creating a way if you don't have all the details? It means someone is going to have to revisit that map area in the future. Worse still is that people may think the area is complete - which it certainly is not if it is missing road names, etc.

Rename of all my ways.

Posted by mos6510 on 28 August 2007 in English.

I was alerted by another local mapper (nm7s9) to the fact that it is recommended that we shouldn't use abbreviations for road types (i.e. no St, Rd, Ave, Tce, etc, etc). Unfortunately this is excactly what I was doing :-(.

I've just gone through and changed all the ways I've done. It took a few hours but now I'm sure that every way I've ever done is named properly. Thank god for JOSM's ability to save to an OSM file, and thank god for grep!
Lucky it was slow at work today ;-)

Fairbairn and Brindabella Buis

Posted by mos6510 on 8 August 2007 in English.

Completed an outline of Googong dam (with Islands) a few days ago. I copied the method used on Lake Burley Griffin (good work whoever did that one!)

Completed Yass Road from the roundabout in Queanbeyan to the first roundabout at Brindabella Business park tonight.

In the next few days I should have Fairbairn complete, and with any luck, Brindabella Business Park too.

I've decided to ditch Potlatch and use JOSM full time now as it looks like the Potlatch author is making changes on the fly. What was with the change in line thickness a few days ago?? Now it's back to the way it was! Maybe I hit a wrong key or something?

Also, I did, and re-did, only to do again, the Googong dam way. I did it the first couple of times in Potlatch but some of the changes didn't stick after checking it 24 hours later. I was getting segments that weren't part of the dam's way, even though they were all created sequentially in the one sitting. Very strange. Finally resorted to JOSM in the end. I'll scream if the data is still broken next time I check it..