[talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 65, Issue 15

[wil ly]

RE: tourist drives

I just noticed today that Google Maps has tourist route shields, eg:
https://www.google.com/maps?q=-28.333093,152.296257&hl=en&ll=-28.289266,152.124252&spn=0.500638,0.696945&num=1&t=m&z=11

In this example, however, only the initial shield is displayed (possibly
reflecting a paucity of road signage). In other locations, such as:

https://www.google.com/maps?q=Tourist+Drive+23,+Landsborough,+Queensland,+Australia&hl=en&sll=-27.567038,151.976793&sspn=0.007875,0.01089&oq=tourist+drive&dirflg=ht&doflg=ptk&hnear=Tourist+Drive+23,+Landsborough+Queensland+4550,+Australia&t=m&z=14

have far more shields displayed.

I have also been in touch with Nathan of Southern Downs regional council in
QLD who has given me 5 routes (1, 11, 12, 14, 21) so I'll put those in OSM.

I asked him if he knew of any other council reps who could give me data,
but I think it's going to be a matter of me contacting them myself. I also
got a CD of PDFs from Mike Keenan (spelling?) at QLD Main Roads which show
routes for many (most?) regional council areas of QLD. These maps have
tourist routes marked but they are at a very small scale so digitising will
cause errors... possibly.

Wil
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