[talk-au] New Australian Aerial Imagery

[Grant Slater]

On 11 March 2012 13:17, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Grant Slater
> <openstreetmap at firefishy.com> wrote:
>> The positional accuracy seems to be excellent. I have already used the
>> imagery to add a few missing railway line sections in Western
>> Australia. It takes a little while to get used to the imagery being
>> grayscale. In JOSM I’ve found it helpful to add some colour to the
>> imagery by overlaying the imagery over a Bing background with AGRI
>> layer set slightly transparent.
>
> First impressions are that it's very good for watercourses, but roads
> can be a bit hard to distinguish from other features like fences.
>
> For example, what is this feature running diagonally SW/NE:
> http://agri.openstreetmap.org/?zoom=16&lat=-36.58249&lon=145.31679&layers=B0
>

It is a railway line. The slow curves and further west the silos
reveal its identity:
http://agri.openstreetmap.org/?zoom=16&lat=-36.61215&lon=145.24034&layers=B0

/ Grant