[talk-au] What's going on here? (mysterious street)

[Christoph Donges]

South of Toowoomba are heaps of roads on google that don't exist when you go
there.

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Evan Sebire <evan at sebire.org> wrote:

> I think google and melways obtained their Victorian base maps from landvic,
> http://services.land.vic.gov.au/maps/interactive.jsp
> Then they go about fixing up the street use, that is why melways has a much
> better map because they have been modifying it for many more years.
>
> In this case Ward road is still on landvic as a government easement so may
> get
> developed in the future and is not private property (unless we are talking
> about something different).
> In my neighbourhood which isn't to far away from Kallista a neighbour has
> built a shed on government land reserved of a road and erected a fence to
> block people.  Directly above his shed are powerlines that run down the
> easement beside the land reserved for the road!
>
> This all get back to a discussion on this list about 12 months ago about
> mapping non-existing roads/gazetted road,
>
> Evan
>
> On Friday 20 August 2010 11:22:44 Steve Bennett wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >   For my own education, could someone attempt to guess what's going on
> > here:
> >
> > http://goo.gl/maps/lBqP
> >
> > Specifically, Ward Rd. I see no trace of it on NearMap
> > (http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-37.897085,145.391838&z=18&t=h&nmd=20100711
> ),
> > and I couldn't find it when I rode through there the other night.
> >
> > Well, ok, you can kind of see the outline of something that once might
> > have been a road, but it's just grass. But at Grantulla Rd, StreetView
> > shows what I saw: three driveways, all clearly private property.
> >
> > Even Melway has it:
> >
> http://www.street-directory.com.au/sd_new/mapsearch.cgi?star=5&heading=&x=1
> >
> 45.39312095760306&ftsSearch=ward%20rd%20kallista&y=-37.89649631015688&level
> > =6&StateID=1
> >
> > They show it as dashed, but I'm not sure what that means.
> >
> > Anyway, is this likely a road that used to exist, an error...something
> > else?
> >
> > Steve
> >
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