The UBD printed maps have a marking called "untrafficable road" (or something to that effect). Basically it's a designation for roads which are gazetted but don't exist.
eg: Stanley Road, Epping, NSW: OSM: http://osm.org/go/u...@fn8li- Whereis: http://www.whereis.com/nsw/epping/stanley-rd?id=93E9799C00893A There's a creek which runs through there, along with a ~10m high cliff face on the Northern side. I used to live in Knox Ave and spent much of my childhood exploring the bush around there. Brent ----- Original Message ----- From: John Smith <delta_foxt...@yahoo.com> Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 12:10 pm Subject: Re: [talk-au] Marking non-existent roads... To: Ben Kelley <ben.kel...@gmail.com> Cc: talk-au@openstreetmap.org > > --- On Tue, 11/8/09, Ben Kelley <ben.kel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Maybe something on a wiki page, but how do you know to look > > there? > > There is a lot of roads marked on g'maps and others that just > don't exist, you'd get lost in the noise. > > > doesn't actually exist. This system is not much use to > > someone else trying to survey the same area though. > > Yup, exactly, I more or less know what is there when I was > surveying it with a GPS, but that doesn't help the next person, > for roads that partially exist I put a barrier in, but that > doesn't help for complete roads that don't exist. > > > Another case would be for streets that no longer exist, but > > once existed, and where there are GPS traces in OSM for the > > street that used to exist. (There are a couple in Tamworth > > like this.) I don't have a good solution for these. > > Something that came to mind reading your reply was > railway=abandoned, it doesn't render but it's still marked, > there's no way we'd get agreement upon this from the main list > they're still going in circles over trees and paths. > > Something like highway=abandoned or highway=phantom, I'm not > advocating to copy from other maps, but if you have mapped out > streets near by it should be possible to approximate rough > location in OSM database. > > Thoughts? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >
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