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

[Ross Scanlon]

> 
> --- 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?

This gets close but you could apply that to parts of most major highways west of the great dividing range as well.

The primary production is probably a problem too as I'd expect to use this on the roads arround here which might have primary production on one side and national park on the other. Or go from an area surrounded by primary production into an area that is either totally state forest or national park.

An added or alternate para:

"This road would be tagged residential or unclassified if it was in a metropolitan or urban centre"

When rendered should be the same as unclassified and residential.
 
> 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 :)

Depends on which part some of it's good, others mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Cheers
Ross

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