[talk-au] Newbie intro

[John Smith]

--- On Sun, 23/8/09, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:

> welcome aboard
> we need more thinking about seasonal and unseasonal uses of
> roads, and other 
> restrictions like 4wd_only; dry_weather_only

4wd_only is now a valid tag :) 

Want to go 2 from 2? :)

> so management vehicles only (and i presume fire trucks too)
> is another 
> important restriction.

I assume that would just be an access=private tag, even though it's crown land it's still considered as owned by NPWS usually.

> whether it is legal or advisory is important to Germanic
> thinkers, less to us.

In a very strict sense, these dry_weather/4wd_only signs could be used to fine someone, like the sign you posted a link to showing all road damage will be paid for by anyone screwing up the road in wet weather.

> Now we understand better how we get those Europeans doing
> stupid things on our 
> roads - it wasn't illegal, it was only advisory :-$

They still don't agree with us, they still think it's just another smoothness option, except for those from Iceland maybe.