[talk-au] Question - names of motorways leaving Sydney

2014-09-08 Thread Mark Pulley
When the new alphanumeric route numbers in NSW were unveiled, some of the motorways were renamed (e.g. Sydney-Newcastle Freeway became Pacific Motorway, South-Western Motorway became Hume Motorway). In OSM these all have the new route number included in the road name (e.g. name=M4 Western

Re: [talk-au] Question - names of motorways leaving Sydney

2014-09-08 Thread Andrew Harvey
On 7 September 2014 16:10, Mark Pulley mrpul...@lizzy.com.au wrote: When the new alphanumeric route numbers in NSW were unveiled, some of the motorways were renamed (e.g. Sydney-Newcastle Freeway became Pacific Motorway, South-Western Motorway became Hume Motorway). In OSM these all have

Re: [talk-au] Question - names of motorways leaving Sydney

2014-09-08 Thread Leon Kernan
That sounds consistent with what the rest of the country does with alphanumerics. Don't forget to check the route relation matches as well (if they have one). If people want to refer to the road as the M4 then it's still plain to see in the ref tag and rendering. On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 4:10 PM,

Re: [talk-au] Question - names of motorways leaving Sydney

2014-09-08 Thread Ian Sergeant
When these names were first gazetted they included the route number in the name. They corrected it in a subsequent gazette to just the names. I think that's the best and generally aligns with ground truth. Ian. On 7 Sep 2014, at 4:10 pm, Mark Pulley mrpul...@lizzy.com.au wrote: When