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Continued Work Around Our Hill

Posted by DesertTrip on 30 November 2016 in English.

I found another misplaced overlay of streets in the wrong area and deleted them. Corrected names of streets, deleted non-existent streets and tomorrow will drive around to confirm streets (and their order) before doing those such as the little courts off Cedral.

Weather Underground (aka Wunderground) wrote me today to confirm that they did just recently switch to using OpenStreetMaps for their personal weather station maps. When I am done cleaning up my area, I will go across the big road and clean-up the area for the 3rd weather station in our area.

Oh yeah!! Once I get the confirmation of our hill name from USGS, I will be adding it’s name as well. We sent the name proposal to the USGS in 2014. It has since been sent to our state, then to our county, back to the state (all approved) and is just waiting for it’s finalization at the federal level. I was told it should be finalized within the next 30 days. Our nameless hill (which is a distinguishable landmark from afar) will finally have a name. I can’t wait! That will be fun to be able to enter. Kind of like the dessert after all this road clean-up.

My Area Needed a Lot of Work

Posted by DesertTrip on 29 November 2016 in English.

It appears people are using some overlay and just copying it. I live here. They are wrong. There was literally 4 or 5 duplicates of our roads all within a mile or two. Some going east-west and some north-south. Some even diagonally through houses! Several duplicates went straight through mountains. MANY roads were misnamed.

I do hope that people double check before editing in the future.

Go look at what the county GIS maps show!!! Go look at your own street signs. Just don’t trust the overlay here. It is WRONG.

I still have many many hours of work to do on my area. This is NUTS.

Location: Mohave County, Arizona, United States