On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 23:17:57 +1100 Nick Hocking <nick.hock...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd hazard a guess that most urban suburbs will have their boundaries > running down the centre of a street but a lot of rural ones will have > them on one side of a road, river or train track. With roads in the > country areas, it would make sense for then to be entirely in one > suburb or another so as to make it clear which local council is > responsible for maintaining it. That might make sense for discussion of Council boundaries, but there are far more suburb boundaries in rural areas than Councils, and a quick cursory glance at a few suburb boundaries in www.atlas.sa.gov.au (which I would assume is the official version) in rural areas suggests they run right down road centres in the vast majority of cases (at least in S.A.). Interestingly a few of the council ones don't, probably exactly for the reasons you suggest, which will prove interesting when the two are parallel a few metres apart, and very hard to find reliable osm-compatible data to back this up. -- =b _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
