[talk-au] What's going on here? (mysterious street)
Tom Brennan
website at ozultimate.com
Sun Aug 22 22:59:05 BST 2010
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
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