Help rename a park
TECHNOLOGY has caught out the Tweed Shire Council.
The council is asking for someone to help rename a park after it was found the first option, 'Cudgera Creek', could cause confusion for people using GPS to navigate around the shire.
The park's name is the same as a shire locality nearly 8kms away. The park is in Hastings Point not Cudgera Creek.
Anthony Pike of Cudgera Creek said he could understand there would be issues with the name and has made a submission to council for a name change.
"I can see people coming down from Queensland with their GPS on with Cudgera Creek punched into the location, and with one mistake, going over the rough mountain road to Burringbar... funnier things happen with GPS."
He suggested naming it Hastings Point Park.
Another suggestion was to name the park in recognition of the Tweed's Aboriginal heritage.
Mr Pike said it was one of the few opportunities to name a prime waterfront location with an appropriate indigenous name.
It is not the first time that Cudgera Creek gave cartographers headaches.
Google Maps has misnamed Cudgera Creek as Cudgen Creek and has the creek meeting the ocean at both Hastings Point and Kingscliff.
