[OSM-newbies] AussiePaul (newbie) RE: mapping problems

[Thomas Meller]

Hello Paul,

consider creating a scheme for describing the state of routes as fit to the Australian circumstances.
There is still a lot of debate in this area.
I think I have found a scheme for my surroundings. There is no real standard, yet.

Have a look on my user page to find the description: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User_talk:Tmeller
Maybe you will have better ideas. Australia is not the same playground as Switzerland.

And don't be too shy to alter existing map data.
There have been lots of bulk imports being extremely buggy.
Ground-level surveys mostly show better results than 'official' data.
All objects have a history where you can find who altered the object last.
Get in contact, consider the 'source=*' tag.
You will get a good feeling for this within some Months, I'm sure.

> There 
> appears to be a dirt road east of Fischer, near the speed limit change; 
> driveway or road?
> I'm impressed that you have picked up that I corrected the changed speed
> limit from 50 to 60ks!!! 
> You are exactly right though. That road is a road reserve. The road has
> never been made but there has been a track there from before the time that I
> started coming out here as a little boy (I'm 51 now)  to visit my
> Grandparents.  (They were the  Falveys that Falvey Street was named after.) 
> The road reserve has a name, Monterea Road. It runs down a slope and the
> water tends to follow the track and so has eroded it quite badly in places.
> 
> There is a water course / drain at the bottom, near Ripley Rd, running
> North/ South (ish) that almost never dries up and is quite boggy most of the
> time. I suppose if you really needed to it would be possible to go through
> it in a 4WD but I doubt anyone goes through there. I have considered walking
> it with the GPS to get a set of  marks for it, but I think marking it as
> a pathway would give people the impression that it would be an easy walk,
> when in fact, although not very long, it would be rough walking and crossing
> the wet area at the bottom would probably result in getting boots full of
> mud unless the walker was wearing proper hiking boots.


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