<br>Thanks - great suggestion.<br><br>I'm pretty sure most of the streets around where I live have been around for a long time,<br>mapping them is easy(ish) as I just drive around with a gps - getting the names is a<br>
pain however.<br><br>Did you go to the State library in the city ?<br><br>Also, I've just been given permission by the NSW Geographical Names Board to<br>derive suburb boundaries from there online maps (which are not great, but it's
<br>doable)<br><br>cheers<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ian Sergeant</b> <<a href="mailto:isergean@hih.com.au">isergean@hih.com.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Andrew Loughhead <<a href="mailto:andrew@incanberra.com.au">andrew@incanberra.com.au</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Where I have been a bit lazy so far is in getting street names or other<br>> features. On the scooter voice recording or photography both seem quite
<br>> hard to organise. I am hoping to try a helmet cam over the next few<br>> weeks. I think it is important to get primary data for street names, to<br>> avoid any potential accusations of copyright breach. I know around
<br>> Canberra pinching data from other online sources would be fraught, just<br>> because there are so many errors in sources like Google Maps.<br><br>I've found in some areas of Sydney that the historical maps available
<br>online at the National Library and State Library can be useful for street<br>names.<br><br>For an example in Canberra, see something like<br><br><a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.map-gmod37-a1-sd&rgn=0.5761528569,0.1616161616,0.8701083961,0.4983164983">
http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.map-gmod37-a1-sd&rgn=0.5761528569,0.1616161616,0.8701083961,0.4983164983</a><br>&prevwidth=400&cmd=zoomin&x=238&y=97&width=1200<br><br><a href="http://tinyurl.com/yq3da5">
http://tinyurl.com/yq3da5</a><br><br>Obviously there are some changed features since 1950, so I'm not suggesting<br>you use it for new mapping, but in my experience if the same street is<br>there in the same location, it is usually called the same thing.
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