[talk-au] Alphanumeric road names in NSW/Qld..

[Brent Easton]

Hi Ian,

Do you know what will be happening with other highways and state routes?

Brent.

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On 1/08/2007 at 10:40 AM Ian Sergeant  wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I notice that Queensland and NSW seem to be (slowly) joining Vic, Tas & SA
>with alphanumeric road mnemonics
>
>The Queensland motorways are becoming "M" numbers, and associated "A"
>roads.
>
>The Sydney metroads look like becoming "M" roads and "A" roads.  So Metroad
>2 along Windsor Road and the Hills Motorway (M2) will just be the A2 and
>M2.
>
>This has to be good news, as we don't have to worry so much about rendering
>the non-standard hexagonal boxes, or the ugly "Metroad" tag on Sydney
>routes.  The new A symbol is a standard looking oblong box.
>
>The nature of OSM also means we should be able to incorporate these changes
>much quicker than any published maps..
>
>Ian.
>
>
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Brent Easton                       
Analyst/Programmer                               
University of Western Sydney                                   
Email: b.easton at uws.edu.au