[talk-au] Highway classifications

[Liz]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Roy Wallace wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Do we have any objective way of deciding what is a "major through
> > route within a local area" vs a "minor through route within a local
> > area"?
> 
> By definition, the definition will be dependent on the context. From
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway: "description of the
> importance of the highway for the road grid." To get any useful
> feedback from us, I suspect you will need to give us some context, in
> terms of the "road grid" in the location you're talking about.
> 
> Unfortunately, I think it boils down to this: make it secondary if
> it's more important than nearby tertiary roads, and make it tertiary
> if it's less important than nearby secondary roads. Iterate.
> 

I just "downgraded" some roads in Dubbo which had been rated as highly as some 
of the named highways.
They possibly should have been downgraded to tertiary, not secondary, but I 
don't know Dubbo well enough to decide.
Anyone live in Dubbo or been there enough to check the internal road system?