[talk-au] 'Break in' the list

[Ian Sergeant]

Andrew Loughhead <andrew at incanberra.com.au> wrote:

> Where I have been a bit lazy so far is in getting street names or other
> features. On the scooter voice recording or photography both seem quite
> hard to organise.  I am hoping to try a helmet cam over the next few
> weeks. I think it is important to get primary data for street names, to
> avoid any potential accusations of copyright breach.  I know around
> Canberra pinching data from other online sources would be fraught, just
> because there are so many errors in sources like Google Maps.

I've found in some areas of Sydney that the historical maps available
online at the National Library and State Library can be useful for street
names.

For an example in Canberra, see something like

http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.map-gmod37-a1-sd&rgn=0.5761528569,0.1616161616,0.8701083961,0.4983164983
&prevwidth=400&cmd=zoomin&x=238&y=97&width=1200

http://tinyurl.com/yq3da5

Obviously there are some changed features since 1950, so I'm not suggesting
you use it for new mapping, but in my experience if the same street is
there in the same location, it is usually called the same thing.

Ian.