I know very little about the rendering, but I would suspect not. each boundary is going to divide two suburbs and may of them are quite short - so I would expect that representing them on a generic map is quite difficult to do.
cheers On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Luke Woolley <lswool...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.car...@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.hock...@gmail.com> > nick.hock...@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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-au mailing list >> <Talk-au@openstreetmap.org>Talk-au@openstreetmap.org >> <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au> >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >> >> > > > -- > Franc > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > > -- Franc
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