2009/8/5 John Smith <delta_foxt...@yahoo.com>:
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> --- On Wed, 5/8/09, Shaun McDonald <sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk> wrote:
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>> You can determine whether an unclassified road is rural by
>> whether there are other things around in the area. That's
>> the whole point of Geo extensions in databases. you can also
>> do some preprocessing if you need to.
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> That isn't the point, the same key/value pair is being used for 2 completely 
> different purposes and that could mean they need to be rendered differently.

no, I don't see it like this. Unclassified is the lowest street/road
in the interconnecting grid, be it in urban or rural areas. The
physical state might be different, but hey, who uses physical state
for main classification?  ;-)

> Also not all towns are mapped out any where near usable levels in Australia 
> so this wouldn't really be appropriate until such times as they are mapped 
> out.
that's true. Routing should work before all landuses are mapped.

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