--- On Tue, 4/8/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> The situation you're describing of a major thoroughfare > which is just a gravel road should probably be tagged as > unsealed primary while roads of similar > "construction" which exist so that farmers can get > home could come under "rural", even if both of > them are nothing more than tracks in a coastal dweller's > world view. (cripes that's a long sentence, sorry about > that :p). The track is the bit that connects the unsealed road to their farm. In most cases, these roads would be considered tertiary at best, however there may be a tertiary road that is unsealed with connecting rural roads. http://maps.bigtincan.com/?zoom=13&lat=-29.41871&lon=151.00979&layers=B0 The tertiary road is unsealed but is a fairly "busy" road compared to others that interconnect that are also unsealed, by going that way you can save 50km compared to taking the sealed route. There is still a lot of sealed roads in rural areas, the unsealed ones are short cuts even if there is a sealed route you can take. Most of these roads aren't the most pleasant route to take if you don't like bull dust and corrugates and other sorts of uneven surfaces, I wouldn't consider them to be tracks or residential either for that matter. I just realised in typing the last couple of emails that depending where you are from it depends how you interpret the current meaning of highway=unclassified. Hopefully by adding a couple of words in the right spot it will clarify things much better. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
