60-730: Burraga is located in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales , 47 kilometres south west of Oberon and about 67 kilometres (42 mi) south of Bathurst . It is within Oberon Shire . At the 2016 census , Burraga had a population of 91. The area now known as Burraga lies on the traditional lands of the Wiradjuri people. The name Burraga is almost certainly a settler rendering of an Aboriginal language word. Sydney J. Endacott (Australian Aboriginal Words and Place Names and Their Meanings, 1959) states that Burraga means "Bitter Swamp". Burraga
120-476: A C++ program designed by two Danish brothers, Lars and Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen , and Noel Gordon and Stephen Ma, at the Sydney-based company Where 2 Technologies, which was founded in early 2003. The program was initially designed to be separately downloaded by users, but the company later pitched the idea for a purely Web-based product to Google management, changing the method of distribution. In October 2004,
180-745: A route planner , allowing users to find available directions through driving, public transportation, walking, or biking. Google has partnered globally with over 800 public transportation providers to adopt GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification), making the data available to third parties. The app can indicate users' transit route, thanks to an October 2019 update. The incognito mode, eyes-free walking navigation features were released earlier. A July 2020 update provided bike share routes. In February 2024, Google Maps started rolling out glanceable directions for its Android and iOS apps. The feature allows users to track their journey from their device's lock screen . In 2007, Google began offering traffic data as
240-577: A 1400% price raise for users on the basic plan, with only six weeks of notice. This caused a harsh reaction within the developers community. In June, Google postponed the change date to July 16, 2018. In August 2018, Google Maps designed its overall view (when zoomed out completely) into a 3D globe dropping the Mercator projection that projected the planet onto a flat surface. In January 2019, Google Maps added speed trap and speed camera alerts as reported by other users. On October 17, 2019, Google Maps
300-424: A COVID-19 Layer update for Google maps, which is designed to offer a seven-day average data of the total COVID-19-positive cases per 100,000 people in the area selected on the map. It also features a label indicating the rise and fall in the number of cases. In January 2021, Google announced that it would be launching a new feature displaying COVID-19 vaccination sites. In January 2021, Google announced updates to
360-789: A colored overlay on top of roads and motorways to represent the speed of vehicles on particular roads. Crowdsourcing is used to obtain the GPS-determined locations of a large number of cellphone users, from which live traffic maps are produced. Google has stated that the speed and location information it collects to calculate traffic conditions is anonymous. Options available in each phone's settings allow users not to share information about their location with Google Maps. Google stated, "Once you disable or opt out of My Location, Maps will not continue to send radio information back to Google servers to determine your handset's approximate location". On May 25, 2007, Google released Google Street View ,
420-473: A company that provided real-time traffic analysis. The launch of Google Maps was first announced on the Google Blog on February 8, 2005. In September 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina , Google Maps quickly updated its satellite imagery of New Orleans to allow users to view the extent of the flooding in various parts of that city. As of 2007, Google Maps was equipped with a miniature view with
480-664: A country, instead of redirecting to the Palestinian territories . In August 2013, Google Maps removed the Misplaced Pages Layer, which provided links to Misplaced Pages content about locations shown in Google Maps using Misplaced Pages geocodes . On April 12, 2014, Google Maps was updated to reflect the annexation of Ukrainian Crimea by Russia . Crimea is shown as the Republic of Crimea in Russia and as
540-491: A draggable rectangle that denotes the area shown in the main viewport, and "Info windows" for previewing details about locations on maps. As of 2024, this feature had been removed (likely several years prior). On November 28, 2007, Google Maps for Mobile 2.0 was released. It featured a beta version of a "My Location" feature, which uses the GPS / Assisted GPS location of the mobile device, if available, supplemented by determining
600-414: A feature of Google Maps providing 360° panoramic street-level views of various locations. On the date of release, the feature only included five cities in the U.S. It has since expanded to thousands of locations around the world. In July 2009, Google began mapping college campuses and surrounding paths and trails . Street View garnered much controversy after its release because of privacy concerns about
660-684: A new policy for approving edits and avoiding vandalism. On April 29, 2015, users of the classic Google Maps were forwarded to the new Google Maps with the option to be removed from the interface. On July 14, 2015, the Chinese name for Scarborough Shoal was removed after a petition from the Philippines was posted on Change.org . On June 27, 2016, Google rolled out new satellite imagery worldwide sourced from Landsat 8 , comprising over 700 trillion pixels of new data. In September 2016, Google Maps acquired mapping analytics startup Urban Engines. In 2016,
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#1732843943778720-459: A scarcity of fuel, and the mine closed in May that year. The only remaining mining going on to support the village was at the nearby Mt David Gold Mine. The Lloyd mine appears to have reopened around 1912, with another round of capital investment. A narrow-gauge tramway that used two Shay locomotives was constructed around 1912–1913 to bring timber fuel to the smelter. A fire in late 1913 destroyed one of
780-611: Is St Dympna's Catholic church, dating from 1941, which is still in use. The public school first closed in December 2006, reopened in February 2009, and finally closed in December 2016. From around 1900 to around 1915, Estonian-born photographer Evan Antoni Johann Lumme (1865-1935) made photographs of Burraga and some of its inhabitants. Some of these photographs are in the collection of the National Library of Australia . Little remains of
840-422: Is a quiet place now, but still has a community hall, and a village store that is a postal agency. Aside from limited tourism for camping and angling, the economy of the village relies on grazing, nearby softwood forestry plantations, and sawmilling. The War Memorial Obelisk, in the village's War Memorial Park, commemorates the men who went from Burraga to the two world wars. The Burraga Sports and Services Club serves
900-541: Is also the name of the cadastral parish on the northern side of Thompson's Creek. Copper was discovered around 1877 and was reported on by the inspector of mines in 1878. Mining commenced at the Thompsons Creek copper mine, but was hampered by poor management and under capitalisation, until the mine was purchased in 1879 by Lewis Lloyd , who was known as "the copper king". The mine then became known as Lloyd's Copper Mine. Lloyd built reverberatory smelting furnaces near
960-580: Is drained by many creeks and rivers, including Cox's River , Jenolan River , Kanangra River, and Kowmung River which in turn flow into the Hawkesbury - Nepean river system. The Blue Mountains are an extensive Triassic sandstone plateau rising to 1,100 metres (3,609 ft) near Mount Victoria . The Blue Mountains terminate in a north–south line of cliffs that form the eastern edge of the Hartley, Kanimbla and Megalong Valleys. Two physical components comprise
1020-483: Is more complex geology with siltstones, sandstones, greywacke, shales and chert , basalt and granite intrusions and embedded volcanic and limestones. Underlying Bathurst is the dominant feature of Bathurst granite (intruded in the Devonian period) and at Mount Panorama and Mount Stewart basalt occurs. Topography of the region ranges from slightly undulating to rough and very steep country, approximately 30 km to
1080-735: The Autonomous Republic of Crimea in Ukraine. All other versions show a dotted disputed border. In April 2015, on a map near the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, the imagery of the Android logo urinating on the Apple logo was added via Map Maker and appeared on Google Maps. The vandalism was soon removed and Google publicly apologized. However, as a result, Google disabled user moderation on Map Maker, and on May 12, disabled editing worldwide until it could devise
1140-616: The International Space Station interior spaces became available. Google Maps has incorporated 3D models of hundreds of cities in over 40 countries from Google Earth into its satellite view. The models were developed using aerial photogrammetry techniques. At the I/O 2022 event, Google announced Immersive View, a feature of Google Maps which would involve composite 3D images generated from Street View and aerial images of locations using AI, complete with synchronous information. It
1200-581: The Main Western Railway line . The main towns within the Central Tablelands, listed by population, include Orange , Bathurst , Lithgow , Mudgee , Blayney , Oberon , Gulgong , and Portland . In May 1813 explorers Blaxland , Wentworth , and Lawson setout to discover the inland to the west of Sydney, over the Blue Mountains . The group climbed the mountains and on reaching the top of
1260-709: The Sydney Metropolitan Area and the Illawarra . Several main State highways pass through the Central Tablelands including the Great Western Highway , Mitchell Highway , Golden Highway , Castlereagh Highway and the Mid-Western Highway . The main western railway line from Sydney passes through the Central Tablelands, east to west direction initially on the Blue Mountains railway line , then continuing with
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#17328439437781320-730: The first commercial Android device , Google announced that a Google Maps app had been released for its Android operating system. In October 2009, Google replaced Tele Atlas as their primary supplier of geospatial data in the US version of Maps and used their own data. On April 19, 2011, Map Maker was added to the American version of Google Maps, allowing any viewer to edit and add changes to Google Maps. This provides Google with local map updates almost in real-time instead of waiting for digital map data companies to release more infrequent updates. On January 31, 2012, Google, due to offering its Maps for free,
1380-558: The 2,000 miles of river paths in the UK." In December 2012, the Google Maps application was separately made available in the App Store, after Apple removed it from its default installation of the mobile operating system version iOS 6 in September 2012. On January 29, 2013, Google Maps was updated to include a map of North Korea . As of May 3, 2013 , Google Maps recognizes Palestine as
1440-581: The British Government, from N.S.W.; the smelter at Burraga closed in August 1918, with the ore being sent instead to Port Kembla , via the railway station at Perthville . The mine closed down, in January 1919, and equipment from the operation, including the remaining Shay locomotive, was sold off in 1920. A long-awaited branch railway line from Tarana to Burraga, which would have allowed coal to be brought to
1500-650: The Central Tablelands region surrounding Bathurst ; the Bathurst Basin and the Tablelands areas. They are drained by the Macquarie, Turon, Fish and Campbells Rivers to the north and Abercrombie and Isabella Rivers to the south. The central basin area of the Bathurst area is mainly granite soils while in the north area sandstone , conglomerates , greywacke , siltstones , limestones and minor volcanos predominate. The south
1560-607: The Government of South Korea offered Google conditional access to the country's geographic database – access that already allows indigenous Korean mapping providers high-detail maps. Google declined the offer, as it was unwilling to accept restrictions on reducing the quality around locations the South Korean Government felt were sensitive (see restrictions on geographic data in South Korea ). On October 16, 2017, Google Maps
1620-494: The Murray-Darling river system. At the head of the valley, to the east, high mountains are of volcanic origin, and capped in basalt lava flows deposited some 17 million years ago. Nullo Mountain is the most extensive, and Mount Coricudgy the loftiest at 1,256 metres (4,121 ft). The high mountainous eastern area is a spectacular landscape with basalt peaks, sandstone ravines and rainforest gorges. This high land falls to
1680-474: The available satellite imagery is no more than three years old and is updated on a regular basis, according to a 2011 report. Google Maps previously used a variant of the Mercator projection , and therefore could not accurately show areas around the poles. In August 2018, the desktop version of Google Maps was updated to show a 3D globe. It is still possible to switch back to the 2D map in the settings. Google Maps for mobile devices were first released in 2006;
1740-479: The company announced those features would be transferred to the Google Local Guides program, although users that are not Local Guides can still contribute. Google Maps' satellite view is a "top-down" or bird's-eye view ; most of the high-resolution imagery of cities is aerial photography taken from aircraft flying at 800 to 1,500 feet (240 to 460 m), while most other imagery is from satellites. Much of
1800-605: The company was acquired by Google Inc. where it transformed into the web application Google Maps. The Rasmussen brothers, Gordon and Ma joined Google at that time. In the same month, Google acquired Keyhole , a geospatial data visualization company (with investment from the CIA ), whose marquee application suite, Earth Viewer, emerged as the Google Earth application in 2005 while other aspects of its core technology were integrated into Google Maps. In September 2004, Google acquired ZipDash,
1860-465: The copper mine's operations today; the single remaining tall brick chimney that dominates the site is a remnant of the failed attempt at pyritic smelting, the Burraga Dam on Thompson's Creek survives as a popular angling venue, and there are remnant shafts and slag heaps at the sites of the mine and smelters. The mine site is viewed as a prospective film location, as is the village. The village of Burraga
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1920-643: The east of Bathurst is the folded and faulted sedimentary and metamorphosed formations of the Great Dividing Range which runs roughly north–south. Geology of the area surrounding Mudgee and Gulgong forms part of the north eastern margin of the Lachlan Fold Belt tectonic zone. This northern area is traversed by the Cudegong River which rises in the mountains of the Great Divide, flowing west into
1980-433: The fortunes of the village rose and fell in line with those of the copper mine. The population seems to have peaked in the early 1900s, at around 2,000, during the construction of the new plant at the mine site. When the mine closed for the first time, in 1908, the population was still around 1,500. The population had fallen to 747, in 1911, the year before the mine reopened. It then rose again to around 1,400 to 1500, but after
2040-426: The generic pattern of regions: Google Maps Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google . It offers satellite imagery , aerial photography , street maps, 360° interactive panoramic views of streets ( Street View ), real-time traffic conditions, and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bike, air (in beta ) and public transportation . As of 2020 , Google Maps
2100-693: The heaviest rainfall is around October. The average rainfall for the district ranges between 600 and 1000 mm per year. Rainfall is subject to significant yearly variation. The highest temperature in the Central Tablelands was 44.7 °C (112.5 °F) at Bathurst Gaol, in January 1878. The lowest temperature was −11.1 °C (12.0 °F) at Marrangaroo Defence, in July 2018. New South Wales can be divided into four broad landform components: The four geographic components are then typically divided into north, central and southern areas based upon their location relative to Sydney . This two-way subdivision gives rise to
2160-492: The hottest days, although afternoons in summer tend to cool down and most summer nights are around 13 °C (55.4 °F). Autumn is when the district starts to cool down. Around April frosts start occurring and temperatures below 0 °C (32 °F) may also occur. The district tends to be quite windy in autumn and days sometimes struggle to reach 18 °C (64.4 °F). Winter is the coldest season and daytime temperatures struggle to get above 7 °C (44.6 °F). When
2220-444: The latest versions feature GPS turn-by-turn navigation along with dedicated parking assistance features. By 2013, it was found to be the world's most popular smartphone app, with over 54% of global smartphone owners using it. In 2017, the app was reported to have two billion users on Android, along with several other Google services including YouTube , Chrome , Gmail , Search , and Google Play . Google Maps first started as
2280-591: The locomotives. Falling copper prices led to another closure of the mine in July 1914. The entire mine and associated assets were sold, on behalf of creditors, in 1916, for a mere £5,680. The new owners had the mine, now called the Abercrombie Copper Mine, in production again in March 1917, but problems obtaining enough timber for fuel continued to lead to temporary closures. By mid-1918, wartime shipping conditions had made it impossible to export copper, already sold to
2340-584: The mine closed for a second time in 1914, the population slumped to only 250 by 1916. Just after the final mine closure, in 1919, the population was 1,231. By 1924, the village's population was only 124. The village had two hotels; the Royal Hotel was destroyed by fire in 1932 and the Burraga Hotel was closed in 1933, and its disused building was also destroyed by fire in 1942. Burraga had a Union Church , Anglican and Catholic churches. The only surviving church
2400-524: The mine expanded, workers settled on the nearby land resulting in the reservation of a site for a village, immediately to the east of the private township, in October 1883. In 1883, the mine employed about 200 men and that the population of Burraga was about 500 persons including 60 children. The village had "the usual businesses", a post office and a public school, which opened in November 1883. Therefore, even before
2460-479: The mine's land constrained the alignment of Lloyd Street, so that it intersects the other streets of the village at an angle. The existence of the earlier private township explains why some of Burraga's buildings lie to the west, outside the planned village street grid ending at Lloyd Street. Allotments and former streets of the former private township, to the west of Lloyd Street, are still shown on Google Maps . As there were no other industries to provide employment
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2520-484: The mine. By 1900, it had produced over £1,000,000 worth of copper. In 1899, Lloyd sold his interest in the mine at Burraga to an English company for £100,000, and the mine became the Lloyd Copper Company Mine. Mining and smelting at Burraga had been hindered by the availability of water and fuel for the furnaces; the new owners set about solving these issues. Construction of a concrete dam on Thompson's Creek
2580-417: The nearest wireless networks and cell sites . The software looks up the location of the cell site using a database of known wireless networks and sites. By triangulating the different signal strengths from cell transmitters and then using their location property (retrieved from the database), My Location determines the user's current location. On September 23, 2008, coinciding with the announcement of
2640-418: The ridges they continued west to a point later named Mount Blaxland (south of present-day Rydal ). This was the first access by Europeans to the area now known as the Central Tablelands. Governor Macquarie ordered a second expedition, in November 1813, led by government surveyor George Evans , this second expedition travelled further and reached the site now known as the city of Bathurst . The town of Orange
2700-484: The route planner that would accommodate drivers of electric vehicles. Routing would take into account the type of vehicle, vehicle status including current charge, and the locations of charging stations. In June 2022, Google Maps added a layer displaying air quality for certain countries. In September 2022, Google removed the COVID-19 Layer from Google Maps due to lack of usage of the feature. Google Maps provides
2760-402: The smelters or ore to be shipped more economically, was built only as far as Oberon ; it opened in November 1923. Mining continued on and off up until 1961. Studies were being conducted around 2012, looking for worthwhile lodes of copper and gold at the nearby Lucky Draw Gold Mine. The first settlement at Burraga was a private township on the mining lease of the Thompsons Creek copper mine. As
2820-404: The southwesterly airmasses pass through the region on winter nights the temperature can go as low as −8 °C (17.6 °F) and feel much colder. Severe frosts occur frequently during winter. In the higher parts over 1000 metres ASL, several snowfalls occur each winter. Spring is when the temperature starts to warm, although frosts and sometimes snow still occur in early spring. Around mid-spring
2880-457: The temperature can get as high as 24 °C (75.2 °F), sometimes even higher. Around spring all the crops and flowers start growing in the Central Tablelands. Nights in spring still frequently drop below 0 °C (32 °F). The lower parts tend to be dry when it comes to rainfall, but much wetter on the Oberon Plateau and surrounds. Rain can be expected any day of the year but usually
2940-600: The uncensored nature of the panoramic photographs, although the views are only taken on public streets. Since then, Google has blurred faces and license plates through automated facial recognition . In late 2014, Google launched Google Underwater Street View, including 2,300 kilometres (1,400 mi) of the Australian Great Barrier Reef in 3D. The images are taken by special cameras which turn 360 degrees and take shots every 3 seconds. In 2017, in both Google Maps and Google Earth, Street View navigation of
3000-675: The village and nearby area. Central Tablelands The Central Tablelands in New South Wales is a geographic area that lies between the Sydney Metropolitan Area and the Central Western Slopes and Plains. The Great Dividing Range passes in a north–south direction through the Central Tablelands and includes the Blue Mountains . The region shares borders with the Hunter , Central West Slopes and Plains , South West Slopes , Southern Tablelands , North Western Slopes and Plains ,
3060-461: The village had been planned, a significant settlement and population existed in the area. The new village was surveyed in December 1884 and a formal plan was reserved on 29 October 1887. The reserve for a road (then known as Mine Street) linking the private township to the new village was surveyed in 1886, but actually contained a number of the town's existing buildings; the road reserve was resurveyed in 1900 to overcome that deficiency. The boundary of
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#17328439437783120-412: The west into wide basins of agricultural country. The Cudgegong River collects the fertile basalt enriched volcanics from the mountains and deposits them in the broad fertile alluvial flat agricultural lands to the west. . Due to its location and elevation 450–1395 metres ASL the Central Tablelands has its four seasons. Summer can be quite hot with temperatures exceeding 40 °C (104 °F) on
3180-474: Was being used by over one billion people every month around the world. Google Maps began as a C++ desktop program developed by brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen in Australia at Where 2 Technologies. In October 2004, the company was acquired by Google, which converted it into a web application. After additional acquisitions of a geospatial data visualization company and a real-time traffic analyzer, Google Maps
3240-426: Was completed in 1901 although, due to a drought, the dam did not fill completely with water until 1903. However, the new owners' attempt to change the smelting process, from using reverberatory furnaces to pyritic smelting in a water-jacketed blast furnace, was a total failure. Although a large sum was invested in the operation, there had been some poor decisions made. By 1908, the mine operations were in jeopardy, due to
3300-586: Was found guilty of abusing the dominant position of its Google Maps application and ordered by a court to pay a fine and damages to Bottin Cartographer, a French mapping company. This ruling was overturned on appeal. In June 2012, Google started mapping the UK's rivers and canals in partnership with the Canal and River Trust . The company has stated that "it would update the program during the year to allow users to plan trips which include locks, bridges and towpaths along
3360-501: Was launched in February 2005. The service's front end utilizes JavaScript , XML , and Ajax . Google Maps offers an API that allows maps to be embedded on third-party websites, and offers a locator for businesses and other organizations in numerous countries around the world. Google Map Maker allowed users to collaboratively expand and update the service's mapping worldwide but was discontinued from March 2017. However, crowdsourced contributions to Google Maps were not discontinued as
3420-526: Was named by the explorer Thomas Mitchell , and his third expedition, south, began in this region, accompanied by a local Wiradjuri guide and interpreter Turandurey . The Central Tablelands region of New South Wales lies largely within the Lachlan Fold Belt tectonic zone. The eastern portion of the Central Tablelands covers the area known as the Blue Mountains to the west of the Sydney basin. The area
3480-679: Was to be initially in five cities worldwide, with plans to add it to other cities later on. The feature was previewed in September 2022 with 250 photorealistic aerial 3D images of landmarks, and was full launched in February 2023. An expansion of Immersive View to routes was announced at Google I/O 2023, and was launched in October 2023 for 15 cities globally. The feature uses predictive modelling and neural radiance fields to scan Street View and aerial images to generate composite 3D imagery of locations, including both exteriors and interiors, and routes, including driving, walking or cycling, as well as generate synchronous information and forecasts up to
3540-489: Was updated to include incident reporting, resembling a functionality in Waze which was acquired by Google in 2013. In December 2019, Incognito mode was added, allowing users to enter destinations without saving entries to their Google accounts. In February 2020, Maps received a 15th anniversary redesign. It notably added a brand-new app icon, which now resembles the original icon in 2005. On September 23, 2020, Google announced
3600-504: Was updated with accessible imagery of several planets and moons such as Titan , Mercury , and Venus , as well as direct access to imagery of the Moon and Mars . In May 2018, Google announced major changes to the API structure starting June 11, 2018. This change consolidated the 18 different endpoints into three services and merged the basic and premium plans into one pay-as-you-go plan. This meant
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