[talk-au] suburb boundaries
Luke Woolley
lswoolley at gmail.com
Wed Feb 25 11:44:32 GMT 2009
I am stoked that the import will soon commence, but I have one query.
I can't remember if this has already been asked but do the boundaries
of a suburb render the name of the suburb, like the place=suburb tag
currently does for tagged nodes or will it just show those fancy
purple lines on the map. Thanks.
On 25/02/2009, at 9:16 PM, Franc Carter <franc.carter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I *believe* that it is a subdivision of a state. Sydney in an
> addressing sense refers to the CBD of
> the city (the area with post code 2000).
>
> cheers
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Nick Hocking
> <nick.hocking at gmail.com> wrote:
> I say go for it.
>
> Although I am 150% percent against any mass loading or routable
> things (like roads) I think that suburbs are best done
> by this import and then we have to try to validate the boundaries,
> maybe doorknock both sides of the alledged boundary and see if
> people know which suburb they are in.
>
> PS is a suburb a subdivision of a city or a state.
>
> E.G should Prospect be in Adelaide;South Australia;Australia ... or
> should it be
> in South Australia; Australia
>
> In Canberra it sounds better to say Turner, ACT than Turner,
> Canberra, ACT but I'm not so sure for larger cities.
> Maybe because there is only one city in the ACT.
>
>
> Nick
>
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