[talk-au] I've been trying to fix the highway shields and came across this....

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

D roads certainly do
exist, however at times the signs are covered over/folded up etc. The
one I know for certain is a Pacific Highway detour which heads West
from Nabiac and goes up to Krambach: http://osm.org/go/uaQzXe_

After that I don't know where it goes. There's a D sign at this intersection: 
http://osm.org/go/uaQzVoPL
but I've not followed it after that. I guess it goes to Gloucester and
follows the Buckets Way back to the Pacific Highway ~30km North of
Raymond Terrace.

The D sign linked to above was only installed
after a fatal accident occured on the Pacific Highway at Buladelah
which resulted in all traffic being diverted at Nabiac (and a large
number of cars passing by our property on Wallanbah Road requiring
directions). Prior to that accident ~2 years ago I don't think there
was an official detour route, so they may only be temporary and not
worth mapping.

For anybody who's interested the D route sign in question is visible in Google Street View here: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=-32.085556,152.322092&spn=0,359.92301&z=14&layer=c&cbll=-32.085453,152.32208&panoid=u93FikimFDFYopOTvwIqEg&cbp=12,212.72,,0,12.53

-Brent

----- Original Message -----
From: John Smith <delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 2:24 pm
Subject: Re: [talk-au] I've been trying to fix the highway shields and came across this....
To: talk-au at openstreetmap.org

> I'm going to be adding Tourist Route Shields to the map shortly 
> but in the process of looking for a graphic I came across this 
> page on wikipedia:
> 
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Route_shields_of_Australia
> 
> It lists shields for a number of things like Alt National Route, 
> and on one of the other wiki pages it uses 'D' routes to mean 
> Detour however these routes aren't in the same category as MABC.
> 
> Does anyone think this is a good idea?
> 
> Use network=D for D classified roads, if they exist.
> Use network=detour for NSW classified detour routes
> Use network=alt_NR for Alternate NR routes
> 
> 
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