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

[John Smith]

--- On Tue, 4/8/09, b.schulz.10 at scu.edu.au <b.schulz.10 at scu.edu.au> wrote:

> 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?

You haven't traveled much in western areas have you? :)

Parts of National Highway 1 are a 4wd dirt track.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_1_(Australia)

However there are numerous, mostly all weather gravel roads in western NSW alone, although too much rain makes them unusable, but the primary purpose in some cases is to go between towns but the funding was never forth coming to seal them.

Another good example is the Fitzroy Development Road in Northern QLD

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=-32.7508,151.5851&sll=-25.335448,135.745076&sspn=56.828725,114.169922&ie=UTF8&ll=-23.52307,149.431229&spn=0.465892,1.153564&z=11

It is rough as guts from what I've been told :)