[talk-au] New to mapping in Perth, WA

[Andrew Gregory]

On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:06:47 +0800, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:

> Driveways shouldn't access a roundabout (I've read big quantities of the
> Ausroads guides)

It does happen, though:

http://maps.google.com.au/?ie=UTF8&ll=-31.790792,115.745162&spn=0.000911,0.001852&t=k&z=20

I'm fairly sure the driveway came before the roundabout, which is how it  
can happen.

BTW, are the Ausroads guides you mention the ones found at:

http://www.austroads.com.au/

?

> Legally, there are NO mini-roundabouts in Australia. A mini roundabout  
> has a blue sign, not a yellow one.

Signage can't be the defining characteristic of a roundabout, mini- or  
otherwise. Most roundabouts I've seen aren't signed apart from give way  
signs, but not actual roundabout signs. I remember seeing a Google Maps  
aerial photo of someplace in Australia that had what appeared to be a  
mini-roundabout, i.e. a small painted circle on the road, and the road not  
specially widened for it.

>> * There are quite a few highway=living_street tags. I'm not so sure that
>> they really do qualify as living streets. Fancy, narrow, brick-paved
>> surfaces as found in new stylish subdivisions, are still just
>> highway=residential to me.
> I've found one in Orange with a very low speed limit and a sign  
> indicating
> children and cars sharing the street.

So they do exist! :-)

-- 
Andrew