[Talk-ca] aerial imagery for missing roads

Stewart C. Russell scruss at gmail.com
Sat Jun 25 02:45:08 UTC 2016


On 2016-06-23 10:26 PM, Pierre BĂ©land wrote:
> 
> Going north outside of urban zones, there are many tracks for lumber
> areas. Hard to assess the accessibility of such roads for cars.

Most logging roads, certainly in BC, are private. While they look large,
and make tempting additions to the map, accidentally routing traffic
along them could be fatal. Logging trucks don't (can't!) stop, and
unless you have authorization and the right radio to call in the
checkpoints, the controller won't be able to tell you if there's a truck
coming that you need to get out of the way of.

CanVec also mistakenly digitized a bunch of private wind farm access
roads in Ontario, such as https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/39334427 .
While using these might not be life-threatening, it is trespassing to
use them.

cheers,
 Stewart



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