[talk-au] Nearmap Coverage

[Peter Ross]

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:49 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3 May 2010 08:23, Peter Ross <peter at emailross.com> wrote:
>> Which is 1.5% of australias total surface area (7 692 024km^2) with
>> victoria leading the way with 20% of the state having aerial coverage
>> (237,629km^2).  I think it's somewhat less as the melbourne coverage
>> extends into NSW, but even so it's very impressive.  If they fly
>> ballarat then all the major regional centres of victoria would be
>> covered which would be great.
>
> I think they already flew Ballerat, and yes the Melbourne imagery
> extends into NSW, we could split the polygon and get a more accurate
> answer we could also spend more time aligning the boundaries to be
> more exact as well, but I did this mostly out of curiosity.
>
I wouldn't bother making it more accurate.

I did the percentages because the raw numbers really didn't mean
anything to me.  Only took 5 minutes to google sizes and use
calculator to give percentages.