[talk-au] Filling in blank space (Was Re: Tagging towns by relative importance, not just population size)

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

Oh look - Windorah is there, so it must be important after all! :-)

Thanks

Graeme


On Sun, 1 Oct 2023 at 09:26, Andrew Davidson <theswavu at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 29/9/23 20:22, Warin wrote:
>
> > I did meet some English 4WD world travellers that had a world map. In
> the
> > north west corner of Australia was Carnegie on that map .. it is a
> > cattle station, has fuel and might do some food if you ask. It is a fair
> > way to the next places with fuel. It was on their map so they went. Such
> > is the power of 'filling in the blank spaces'.
>
> It is interesting to look at world maps and looking at what gets put in
> for Australia compared to elsewhere. Check out this 1957 Nat Geo maps
> and see how many of the AU place names you even recognise:
>
> https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-548412715/view
>
> Trida? Not even in OSM.
>
>
>
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