[talk-au] residential and unclassified in Australia WAS definition of the main highway-tag

[b.schulz.10 at scu.edu.au]

highway=rural seems a logical choice. Perhaps just work out a semi-rigid definition, such as:

Any road which is:

a) Primarily boarded by land used for primary production and
b)
Exists primarily to provide transport to service the properties
adjacent to it. Ie: the majority of drivers on the road are traveling
to or from a property rather than between rural centers.

Thoughts?

----- Original Message -----
From: John Smith <delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 11:54 am
Subject: Re: [talk-au] residential and unclassified in Australia WAS	definition of the main highway-tag
To: talk-au at openstreetmap.org

> 
> 
> 
> --- On Tue, 4/8/09, Martin Koppenhoefer 
> <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have been to different countries too, e.g. to Africa, and
> > I don't
> > think the road systems are all the same. I know that there
> > is big
> > differences. But this doesn't explain why routing shouldn't
> > work as
> > long as you keep the hierarchy. In the end, you will have
> > to drive on
> > the roads that are there. There is no possibility if you go
> > by car. I
> > didn't say that I expect e.g. travel time estimations to
> > work
> > everywhere with the same rules, but simple routing - given
> > the
> > relative importance - should IMHO make routing possible
> > worldwide.
> 
> Liz, he has a point and it's very clear the Germans aren't going 
> to let this go, the only solution regardless of who is right, 
> wrong or indiff or who got there first is to replace 
> highway=unclassified to something else.
> 
> Then make this explicit in the main wiki pages what it exactly means.
> 
> Anyone have any objection to highway=rural?
> 
> 
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