Re: [talk-au] Nearmap badly out of date

2011-05-12 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 3:48 PM, John Smith wrote: > On 13 May 2011 15:38, Steve Bennett wrote: >> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:24 PM, John Smith >> wrote: >>> That's before you consider the resolution, it's so high that railway >>> lines and switching tracks are mapped so accurately people were >

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap badly out of date

2011-05-12 Thread John Smith
On 13 May 2011 15:38, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:24 PM, John Smith wrote: >> That's before you consider the resolution, it's so high that railway >> lines and switching tracks are mapped so accurately people were >> suggesting to those that make train games they could use OS

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap badly out of date

2011-05-12 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:24 PM, John Smith wrote: > That's before you consider the resolution, it's so high that railway > lines and switching tracks are mapped so accurately people were > suggesting to those that make train games they could use OSM data as > the basis of their track data for mor

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap badly out of date

2011-05-12 Thread John Smith
On 13 May 2011 13:14, Steve Bennett wrote: > You're not serious. Nearmap is the best resource OSM has ever had in > Australia. For every kilometre of road where Nearmap shows something > contradicted by more recent surveys, there are probably 100+ > kilometres of roads that no one could ever have

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap badly out of date

2011-05-12 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Nick Hocking wrote: > A nearmapper has decided that badly out-of-date nearmap imagery was > more authorative than my GPS traces (taken last weekend) and has > "completed" a road that is not there any longer. It has been > completely grassed over so that cars can no