On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Ian Sergeant wrote: > However, in rural areas of NSW, the system doesn't work so well. If you > use the reference method, you will find that there are a handful of state > highways, a couple of auslink roads, and that leaves 99% of all the roads > without a reference classification. This would dramatically reduce the > usefulness of the resulting map to use a reference classification. Most > roads would look the same. Many main routes between towns have no > reference classification at all.
So in SW NSW and NW Victoria *we* have made A routes or State Highways trunk B routes or State routes primary C routes or other roads which have a MR number on the councils' databases secondary other roads joining 'places' tertiary - they make some sort of a through route rather than a road to nowhere otherwise we have almost every road tertiary or unclassified I get very confused over all this as readers of this list will be well aware > > It would be nice if Australia had a reference system that would work > comprehensively. It doesn't, and that leaves us always requiring a certain > element of subjectivity. > > I would say - if there is a workable reference system for a particular > area, then it is best to use the reference system, and make a > correspondence to the OSM types. Document the area and the reference > system on the wiki, and coordinate a discussion to ensure there is a > consensus for that area. I think that we need to organise that the wiki does represent what we are doing and keep the discussion over here _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-au
