[talk-au] Mapping progress in Victoria

David Murn davey at incanberra.com.au
Tue Jan 5 04:51:12 GMT 2010


On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 09:24 +1100, Craig Feuerherdt wrote:
> I have created a table summarising the length of roads by postcode.
> The table compares the State Government data with OSM data (from
> cloudmade).

> I realise there will be anomalies in the table due to a range of
> factors. The table is more to highlight areas of the state that
> require work. There is a little bit of work to do - about 273,000km
> more roads to map.

Just out of interest, when you say 'length of roads', do you mean the
length of all ways in that postcode, or only ways labelled as trunk,
residential, etc, but excluding cycleways and paths?  Also, do these
figures include off-road tracks?  You could find some of the
'overmapped' areas, contain lots of off-road tracks.

Very interesting figures though, and Id love to see if such figures
could be generated for other parts of the country.

> It would be good if the analysis was done annually so we can see the
> progress. Will make myself a task :)

Even more frequently, monthly for example would give a good indication
of the progress as it happens.

David






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