[talk-au] Rivers
Delta Foxtrot
delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com
Wed May 20 01:27:35 BST 2009
--- On Tue, 19/5/09, Ian Sergeant <isergean at hih.com.au> wrote:
> If you are using potlatch, then the options menu allows you
> to select a
> background layer. Don't count on landsat being
> acccurate enough for your
> purposes either.
landsat doesn't seem to be an option, unless I'm over looking something, only yahoo a few OSM options out of copyright and open topo.
> So what is the problem you are having, if not with the
> location or the tag?
Making a river look like a river...
> Welcome to OSM. You can use the imagery available,
> you can walk the line
I'm not quite fit enough to walk/run the 130+ km of track :)
> with a GPS, you can find and interpolate from surrounding
> features, points,
> or a combination of the above. You can find an out of
> copyright map from
> when the railway was built, which may be able to use to map
> the route once
> you have one or two points.
The line shows on parish maps, I'll have to try and get access to them from the library or something.
> What is the town you are mapping?
Inverell, NSW
Not 100% sure if what I've done so far is right or not, but there was only a handful of streets when I started.
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