[talk-au] outback SA street names

edodd at billiau.net edodd at billiau.net
Wed Oct 27 08:27:04 BST 2010


> As far as street names are concerned, we could just pick up the names for
> the streets currently unnamed by survey from the Atlas of SA, and
> attribute
> appropriately.
I've got 3 names by research - checking the addresses of the pub, school,
police station.
After that I was going to send offspring to Dept Lands in Adelaide to read
the official maps and get some names definitely off copyright
I didn't know about the Atlas of SA

>
> If someone gets updated names from survey, they can update.  Until then
> the
> temptation to just add them from a commercial map is gone.
>
> It would only take a couple of minutes for Maree/Coober Pedy, and the
> problem as far as street names go would vanish.
>
> Ian.
>
> That then removes the tempation
>
> On 27 October 2010 12:42, Ross Scanlon <info at 4x4falcon.com> wrote:
>
>>  referenced is for Coober Pedy.  As far as I can tell the guy was on
>>> holiday in Aus mapped Coober Pedy then traveled on through Marree
>>> adding the
>>> pub as he went.
>>>
>> The Coober Pedy ones look suspect as well.
>>
>> If you compare the "Golf Cource" (their spelling) with the mentioned
>> commercial maps then they are similar.  If you look at the satellite
>> images
>> from the same source then you see that it bears no resemblence to what
>> is
>> actually there.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Ross
>>
>>
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