[talk-au] Marking non-existent roads...

[b.schulz.10 at scu.edu.au]

The UBD printed maps have a marking called "untrafficable road" (or something to that effect). Basically it's a designation for roads which are gazetted but don't exist.

eg: Stanley Road, Epping, NSW:

OSM: http://osm.org/go/uN9@Fn8Li-
Whereis: http://www.whereis.com/nsw/epping/stanley-rd?id=93E9799C00893A

There's a creek which runs through there, along with a ~10m high cliff face on the Northern side. I used to live in Knox Ave and spent much of my childhood exploring the bush around there.

Brent

----- Original Message -----
From: John Smith <delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 12:10 pm
Subject: Re: [talk-au] Marking non-existent roads...
To: Ben Kelley <ben.kelley at gmail.com>
Cc: talk-au at openstreetmap.org

> 
> --- On Tue, 11/8/09, Ben Kelley <ben.kelley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Maybe something on a wiki page, but how do you know to look
> > there?
> 
> There is a lot of roads marked on g'maps and others that just 
> don't exist, you'd get lost in the noise.
> 
> > doesn't actually exist. This system is not much use to
> > someone else trying to survey the same area though.
> 
> Yup, exactly, I more or less know what is there when I was 
> surveying it with a GPS, but that doesn't help the next person, 
> for roads that partially exist I put a barrier in, but that 
> doesn't help for complete roads that don't exist.
>  
> > Another case would be for streets that no longer exist, but
> > once existed, and where there are GPS traces in OSM for the
> > street that used to exist. (There are a couple in Tamworth
> > like this.) I don't have a good solution for these.
> 
> Something that came to mind reading your reply was 
> railway=abandoned, it doesn't render but it's still marked, 
> there's no way we'd get agreement upon this from the main list 
> they're still going in circles over trees and paths.
> 
> Something like highway=abandoned or highway=phantom, I'm not 
> advocating to copy from other maps, but if you have mapped out 
> streets near by it should be possible to approximate rough 
> location in OSM database.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> 
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