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

[Tom Brennan]

In NSW you can often check up unformed roads on council web sites. There 
are oodles of them shown in Google that don't currently exist in 
reality. Compare

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&ll=-33.777168,150.627912&spn=0.006269,0.009645&z=17

with

http://www.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/bmccmap/maps.cfm?rid=2474&search=address%252C%2525emu%2525%252CGLENBROOK%2525

cheers

On 20/08/2010 12:10 PM, Evan Sebire 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