Saturday, January 06, 2007

Last Open Street Map

This is probably going to be my last contribution to OpenStreetMap, at least for a while. Dad and I went for a walk (him for the exercise, me for the mapping), and have now surpassed the up-to-datedness of Google Maps. You see, back when the military base was open the PMQs (there's no Wikipedia page for PMQs that I want, so you get gc.ca instead) had a main street running through it called "Boulevard", and the latest Google Maps reflects this. Now that Garrison Crossing has moved in and rebuilt the area, the street has been renamed to "Garrison Boulevard". Thanks to me Open Street Map has the new name, and Google Maps still has the old name.

For this update, Canterbury Drive has been completed, Keith Wilson runs from Boundary to Vedder (before it was Boundary-Kathleen), added and completed Peach Road, added the Vedder Trail from Peach to Vedder Road, added Vedder road from the trail parking lot to Keith Wilson, added Garrison Boulevard, and added and completed Birmingham. If someone could do Vedder at the bridge area and Vedder from Keith Wilson to Watson, then Vedder will be finished (it becomes Vedder Mountain Road on the north side of the bridge). With Vedder and Evans being done, the major arteries of Sardis will be completed, and it will be down to mostly residential streets. Now we just have to wait for the OpenStreetMap tile renderer to get around to doing the Chilliwack area.

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