Well, I recently drove from Newcastle (main roads only, many residential streets Yahoo traced but not named) to Yarram, Victoria and was very impressed with the main road coverage. I did it over 2 days and headed West towards Singleton and through Wellington via Gulgong then south through canberra/cooma/cann river/etc. The only stretch which was unmapped was the road from Gulgong to Wellington (which is not mapped ;)). Small town residential mapping was mostly non-existant.
The Canberra map was excelent, as was Cooma and Orange. In fact the Orange map helped me find the fastest way from Orange to the first night’s campsite: Carcoar Dam (which is now marked, as are all the tracks used to get there, no name tags though).
Once in Victoria I noticed that the area I’m staying in is mostly unmapped, except for major roads. So I’ve surveyed Port Albert, half of Yarram, a few backroads and the popular walks in the Tarra-Bulga Nat. Park.
In my experiance most national park coverage is poor. I’m living up in Lismore and have mapped the Minyon Falls trail and the Mt Warning summit trail (both of which need another survey or 5, reception on both walks is poor, my Legend HCx was up to 100m out in places and the track is a mess), other than that the national parks are just empty spaces. I’d like to use my tax return to get a mountain bike to help remedy this situation.
On the other hand the popular walks around Katoomba look rather complete, more complete than the Katoomba streets anyway! I’ll be up there on Thursday and will survey a few more tracks, probably out of Blackheath as there’s very few footways marked in the Blue Gum Forest.
Anyway, I’m rambling (as one does on rainy days). It would be really nice to have a wiki page of “Towns which need serious work”, even though this information can be easily looked up on the map the wiki page could be good psycologically if it’s used as a checklist.
