I'd go for the irrigation canals too. To me the grid looks like some kind of giant chinese character. Somebody can read chinese?
Jose On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Gert Gremmen <g.grem...@cetest.nl> wrote: > Could it be irrigation canals ? > > > > Gert Gremmen > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Openstreetmap.nl (alias: cetest) > > P Before printing, think about the environment. > > > > > > Van: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org] > Namens D Tucny > Verzonden: Thursday, January 29, 2009 2:29 AM > Aan: Adam Schreiber > CC: Jürgen Reimann; talk@openstreetmap.org > Onderwerp: Re: [OSM-talk] Error in Google-Maps > > > > 2009/1/29 Adam Schreiber <sa...@clemson.edu> > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:27 PM, D Tucny <d...@tucny.com> wrote: >> Of course, OSM isn't perfect... >> >> http://sautter.com/map/?zoom=11&lat=29.60689&lon=112.12921&layers=B000FTFF >> >> I'm pretty sure there's no grid of motorways there... :/ >> >> There might be a grid of roads though, so seems like a new mapper >> potentially needs some prodding towards the documentation... I'll go do >> that... > > If you switch to the Google sattelite imagery, they are still pretty > big roads at zoom 14 which is the lowest google has imagery for. They > may not be motorways as we think of them, but they're something big. > > They probably are reasonably big access roads for a future development... a > 3 lane each direction dual carriageway with nice wide garden filled central > reservation with trees and/or other plants to each side seperating the wider > than a normal lane cycle ways on each side from the main carriageway > wouldn't be unusual for a slightly out of the way development (e.g. > http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=30.183743,120.206845&spn=0.003269,0.006866&t=h&z=18)... > And they aren't much smaller in city centers when new roads are built, or in > some cases, where existing roads are upgraded, which, with all the > demolishing of buildings that accompanies it, probably makes it a lot more > expensive than just making massive roads in the first place when they can, > leading us back to the probable logic behind building roads wider than two > motorways for access to and within a small development... > > d > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
