Re: [talk-au] New gateway motorway bridge duplication

2010-05-18 Thread David Murn
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 22:17 +1000, Stephen Hope wrote: > A google streetview car was the "first" to cross the bridge (not > counting workers, I guess). So once the footage is processed, and > streetview gets it's next update,... Im still waiting for the new data updated since I saw the streetvie

Re: [talk-au] New gateway motorway bridge duplication

2010-05-16 Thread Andrew Gregory
On Sun, 16 May 2010 11:02:32 +0800, Liz wrote: >> BTW, OSM had the extension rendered the day after! :) >> > well its not finished on its satellite photo so what do you expect? I expect "osm-updated-the-day-it-opens-sometimes-before" from all my maps now :) -- Andrew Gregory

Re: [talk-au] New gateway motorway bridge duplication

2010-05-16 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:56 AM, John Smith wrote: > There is a lot of weird street view locations where the roads have > been realigned but the map data hasn't caught up... Yeah, here's an interesting one I came across a while ago: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&ll=-37.632077,144.069471&sp

Re: [talk-au] New gateway motorway bridge duplication

2010-05-16 Thread John Smith
On 16 May 2010 22:17, Stephen Hope wrote: > Second, on Thursday they had a pre-opening ceremony, with assorted > politicians and reporters being pretty much the only people there, to > welcome google to the bridge. A google streetview car was the "first" This might be big enough that we should d

Re: [talk-au] New gateway motorway bridge duplication

2010-05-16 Thread Stephen Hope
A couple of things about the bridge. First, even though it was officially opened today, it doesn't have traffic on it until Monday week (24th). Then they do changes to the approaches, and a bit later shut the old bridge down for six months for refurbishment. We'll have to keep changing things her

Re: [talk-au] New gateway motorway bridge duplication

2010-05-15 Thread John Smith
On 16 May 2010 12:42, Andrew Gregory wrote: > http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=mapnik&mt1=googlemap&lon=115.75774&lat=-31.74252&zoom=14 Here's a version that overlays the layers... http://sautter.com/map/?zoom=16&lon=115.75774&lat=-31.74252&layers=B0TF and here's the gateway motorway:

Re: [talk-au] New gateway motorway bridge duplication

2010-05-15 Thread Liz
On Sun, 16 May 2010, Andrew Gregory wrote: > On Sun, 16 May 2010 09:55:18 +0800, John Smith > > wrote: > > It's been months now since a new section of the gateway motorway > > opened and it still hasn't appeared on their maps, and today, or > > tomorrow at the latest, the gateway motorway bridge

Re: [talk-au] New gateway motorway bridge duplication

2010-05-15 Thread Andrew Gregory
On Sun, 16 May 2010 09:55:18 +0800, John Smith wrote: > It's been months now since a new section of the gateway motorway > opened and it still hasn't appeared on their maps, and today, or > tomorrow at the latest, the gateway motorway bridge opens to traffic. > > So I'm wondering if we should s

[talk-au] New gateway motorway bridge duplication

2010-05-15 Thread John Smith
It's been months now since a new section of the gateway motorway opened and it still hasn't appeared on their maps, and today, or tomorrow at the latest, the gateway motorway bridge opens to traffic. So I'm wondering if we should start a pool on how long before the bridge and other road works ends