[talk-au] Australia BP service station dataset - suitable for bulk import?
Elizabeth Dodd
edodd at billiau.net
Fri Dec 11 11:40:06 GMT 2009
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, you wrote:
> 2009/12/11 Elizabeth Dodd <edodd at billiau.net>:
> > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, you wrote:
> >> > i then looked for one at blanchetown, and there was no new bp at
> >> > blanchetown, so either its not bp any more, or because the node was
> >> > close the new data has not been imported
> >>
> >> Or the geodata is wrong and the node is 10km away.
> >
> > or they moved it 10km in the last year??
>
> I'm yet to see any of the geo data being correct, they're all
> guesstimates based on the street address fed to the geolocation code.
If the address is on a corner then the node will be sitting on a corner (eg
the wagga one) but if the address is really helpful like "Sturt Highway
Blanchetown" it could be anywhere.
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BOFH excuse #153:
Big to little endian conversion error
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