[talk-au] Major road cleanup

[Matt White]

Recently, for lack of any new GPS traces to work on, I've been wandering 
around various parts of the country looking at the state of the major 
roads (eg: Western Highway in Vic, Stuart Highway in NT etc.)

A lot of these roads look like they were either traced off Yahoo, or 
from a single GPS trace about a year and a half ago. In the time since 
then, many more traces have been uploaded, and suddenly there is 
substantially better data to work off.

I was just thinking that it might be a good time to revisit some of 
these roads and just clean them up a bit. They kind of get ignored once 
they are in place (and I don't think the newer users tend to touch the 
major roads - I didn't for a while when I started).

So if you are bored, or want some mindless work on OSM, feel free to 
re-align some roads...

It's funny - I was just re-aligning a section of the western highway in 
potlatch, and flipping between all traces and only my traces for that 
road (I've got 3 traces each way). Either there's some widly varying 
accuracy on the general traces uploaded, or I always drive in the right 
hand lane going from Melbourne -> Ballarat, and in the left hand lane 
going from Ballarat -> Melbourne. Given I've got a slow diesel fourby, I 
doubt I was driving in hte fast line going up those hills towards Ballarat.

Matt