Google maps gets Australian streets!

Mind Socket · Post by **Mind Socket** » 19 May 06 11:12 am

See!

Hopefully Google Earth is soon to follow with this addition.

- Rog

ideology · Post by **ideology** » 19 May 06 11:32 am

yay!
now we'll have to change our default zoom level on the cache page
how about a zoom level of 4?
http://maps.google.com/?ll=-33.82678333 ... 3333&spn=4

Aushiker · Post by **Aushiker** » 19 May 06 11:41 am

ideology wrote: now we'll have to change our default zoom level on the cache page
how about a zoom level of 4?

Looks good to me.

Andrew

Mind Socket · Post by **Mind Socket** » 19 May 06 11:44 am

ideology wrote:yay!
now we'll have to change our default zoom level on the cache page
how about a zoom level of 4?
http://maps.google.com/?ll=-33.82678333 ... 3333&spn=4

I love that place, the beginning of oh so many nightmares. :p

- R

Bunya · Post by **Bunya** » 19 May 06 1:53 pm

I dunno though - where's the challenge now?

Shouldn't it be just you and the GPSr?

Using all these maps is just wimpy

Why not require a homing beacon in the cache

sc00t · Post by **sc00t** » 19 May 06 2:16 pm

Bunya wrote:Using all these maps is just wimpy

What!!!! As a self confessed map nutcase, i don't leave home without knowing precisely where i am going, must come with the career territory.

In all seriousness though, route optimisation is the key, especially with Urban caching. Plus i've got to GZ with use of my beautiful maps and still spent ages looking for the cache.

the odlids · Post by **the odlids** » 19 May 06 2:17 pm

No Problems!!!!!

Would you like the beacon in Morse, Reverse Morse, DTMF etc etc

I've tried bread crumbs but the ratbag muggle magpies keep eating them.

Odlid Dave

Ebenezer · Post by **Ebenezer** » 19 May 06 2:26 pm

the odlids wrote: Would you like the beacon in Morse, Reverse Morse, DTMF etc etc

I've tried bread crumbs but the ratbag muggle magpies keep eating them.

Ah ha! The odlids are tricked into revealing a clue!

bigmickb · Post by **bigmickb** » 19 May 06 3:40 pm

ideology wrote:yay!
now we'll have to change our default zoom level on the cache page
how about a zoom level of 4?
http://maps.google.com/?ll=-33.82678333 ... 3333&spn=4

Zoom level 4 looks good to me. Also looks like a reasonable dataset they've got too. The PSMA is the only outfit I can think of that'd have property boundaries for all of Australia. Looks like their roads data is sourced from somewhere different though. Still, it all looks good. About bluddy time too!

Partic · Post by **Partic** » 19 May 06 4:09 pm

Perhaps a zoom level or two out from there. Give a wider suburb view. Especially in the country where that zoom level will give you a big green square with a waypoint in the middle of it.

Gotta learn me the Google Maps API!!!! Changing the spn value didn't seem to have any effect?

Mind Socket · Post by **Mind Socket** » 19 May 06 4:10 pm

sc00t wrote:In all seriousness though, route optimisation is the key

The key to wimpy caching.

bigmickb · Post by **bigmickb** » 19 May 06 4:36 pm

Mind Socket wrote:
sc00t wrote:In all seriousness though, route optimisation is the key
The key to wimpy caching.

Them sounds like fightin' words.

Coming soon to a Geocaching battlefield near you, the Mindsocket V Sc00t showdown! Two GPSr's enter, one GPSr leaves....

Chwiliwr · Post by **Chwiliwr** » 19 May 06 5:04 pm

bigmickb wrote: Zoom level 4 looks good to me. Also looks like a reasonable dataset they've got too. The PSMA is the only outfit I can think of that'd have property boundaries for all of Australia. Looks like their roads data is sourced from somewhere different though. Still, it all looks good. About bluddy time too!

There are a number of commercial property boundary datasets but anything that covers the whole of Australia can only be sourced via PSMA under license.

The road dataset looks like the UBD maps, or is sourced from the same dataset, as there are the same slight errors in alignment visible between the electronic version and a printed UBD map of Perth.

GeoScrubers · Post by **GeoScrubers** » 19 May 06 5:22 pm

Partic wrote:Perhaps a zoom level or two out from there. Give a wider suburb view. Especially in the country where that zoom level will give you a big green square with a waypoint in the middle of it.

Gotta learn me the Google Maps API!!!! Changing the spn value didn't seem to have any effect?

Level 4 looks great for suberbia, but some of the county ones will need to be zoomed out to give some idea of where it is.... eg one of mine is
http://maps.google.com/?ll=-27.947,153.059&spn=4 
Only shows up one street....

But still great to see improvements in current system

Mind Socket · Post by **Mind Socket** » 19 May 06 5:25 pm

bigmickb wrote:
Mind Socket wrote:
sc00t wrote:In all seriousness though, route optimisation is the key
The key to wimpy caching.
Them sounds like fightin' words.

Coming soon to a Geocaching battlefield near you, the Mindsocket V Sc00t showdown! Two GPSr's enter, one GPSr leaves....

Heh, I was just connecting Bunya's and sc00t's statements, it sounds like they agree that way.

- Rog ... my GPSr already has a crack in it.
FWIW, I avail myself of all this mapping technology when it's convenient too