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Today's Mapping Ride, Some Stats

Posted by Biogenesis_ on 7 March 2009 in English.

I planned to take a "long" bike ride today and ended up doing a 2hr/30km mapping ride.

During the ride about 175 photos were taken, which resulted in about 310 changes. These were mainly street names but also included a bunch of bus stops, 2-3 post boxes and a public phone.

As a result of today's ride a milestone was reached in street naming. The area encapsulated by the Pacific Highway, Glenrock State Recreational Area and the Awabakal Nature Reserve is now completely named and surveyed. There are probably a few bus stops and what not hiding away in streets I didn't go down, but all the street names are there.

The area includes the suburbs of Highfields, Kahibah, Whitebridge, Dudley and about half of Gateshead, with the exception of 2-3 streets which are difficult to access.

After completing that chunk I headed down into Adamstown to put a dint into that area. The bulk of the area between Park Ave, Glebe Road and Brunker Rd was surveyed.

The osmarender layer should update "soon". No idea when Maplint updates.

The main difficulty with mapping this region is that the Pacific Highway runs along a ridgeline that's ~100m above sea level. It makes mapping on a pushbike a rather intensive experience. My body will be thankful in the long run :).

Location: Adamstown Heights, Newcastle, Newcastle-Maitland, City of Newcastle, New South Wales, 2289, Australia
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