On 11/01/11 11:05, David Murn wrote: > On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 19:47 +0000, Tom Hughes wrote: >> On 10/01/11 19:00, j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: >> >>> American usage would be to refer to that as a road, just not a very >>> high-quality road. I take it that, in Britain, there are certain minimum >>> standards for being called a road? >> >> Nothing official, but it would be very unusual for anybody to call >> something that wasn't surfaced a road. > > Crikey, dont let them see the Old Eyre Highway across southern > Australia, or the Outback Highway[1] across Central Australia. > Together over 3000km of highly travelled road, connecting the western > coast of the country to the central/eastern regions.
Sure, but if you read you will notice that I was specifically answering a question about what that would be called in the UK, not what it would be called in Australia. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
