Talk:Coxs River track

Coxs River Track

This Wikipedia article is based on an article by the New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage at https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=5051480. The article by the Office of Environment and Heritage provides little information about the course of the "track." Also, the co-ordinates given in the article are on the western side of the Kedumba River, from where it would not be possible to walk directly to the end point of the track, Wentworth Falls.

To head the heritage article "Track," for an item that has state heritage significance is, to say the least, inadequate.

Then, too, the primary address shown in the article as "Coxs River Arms, Lake Burragorang, Warragamba Dam, NSW," is, again to say the least, misleading. The point where the track starts is probably at a point on the Kedumba Valley Road, on the eastern side of Coxs River Arm, near its junction with the Kedumba River. From this point, one can follow the Kedumba Valley Road to its junction with Tableland Road and then proceed to the Great Western Highway at Wentworth Falls, a distance of about 25km.

Google maps shows gives the co-ordinates of the starting point as -33.880213 150.349497. The co-ordinates in the article by the Office of Environment and Heritage are given as -33.8548514027 150.3385892100. Neither set of co-ordinates seems to be accurate enough to pinpoint the actual location of the beginning of the track when they are re-entered in Goggle maps.

This is not unusual in a Heritage Register entry. Typically the heritage listing protects a parcel of land containing the thing of interest which can often be a much larger than the land strictly occupied by the thing of interest. This is provide legal protection of the context in which the thing exists, eg to protect the churchyard surrounding the church. Now often the NSWSHR provides us with a map of the land (but not in this case) and from such maps we can deduce that the coord provided is often just a mathematically calculated centre point of the protected land rather the coords of the thing of interest. This mismatch is particularly likely to occur in situations where the thing of interest is not central within the protected site, or (as in this case) where the thing of interest is not a simple block on the land (as a church or house is) but something that meanders through the protected land (as in this track). Without their map, it's difficult to be sure what to do, but I agree with you the reader may be better served with coords to the entry point to the track if we can figure them out. Kerry (talk) 02:55, 5 October 2019 (UTC)