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

John Smith delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 5 04:41:10 BST 2009


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

> The situation you're describing of a major thoroughfare
> which is just a gravel road should probably be tagged as
> unsealed primary while roads of similar
> "construction" which exist so that farmers can get
> home could come under "rural", even if both of
> them are nothing more than tracks in a coastal dweller's
> world view. (cripes that's a long sentence, sorry about
> that :p).

The track is the bit that connects the unsealed road to their farm. In most cases, these roads would be considered tertiary at best, however there may be a tertiary road that is unsealed with connecting rural roads.

http://maps.bigtincan.com/?zoom=13&lat=-29.41871&lon=151.00979&layers=B0

The tertiary road is unsealed but is a fairly "busy" road compared to others that interconnect that are also unsealed, by going that way you can save 50km compared to taking the sealed route.

There is still a lot of sealed roads in rural areas, the unsealed ones are short cuts even if there is a sealed route you can take.

Most of these roads aren't the most pleasant route to take if you don't like bull dust and corrugates and other sorts of uneven surfaces, I wouldn't consider them to be tracks or residential either for that matter.

I just realised in typing the last couple of emails that depending where you are from it depends how you interpret the current meaning of highway=unclassified. Hopefully by adding a couple of words in the right spot it will clarify things much better.


      




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