Re: [talk-au] Highway classifications

2010-06-14 Thread Ross Scanlon
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:51:21 +1000 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 June 2010 15:45, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, do you know what it is? In in case though, you're going to need a council document defining how each road is classified. Nope, others seem

Re: [talk-au] Highway classifications

2010-06-13 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Wondering if any experts here could elaborate a bit on the definitions of highway=primary, secondary, tertiary at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines . There were a few roads in my area (Glen

Re: [talk-au] Highway classifications

2010-06-13 Thread Roy Wallace
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Do we have any objective way of deciding what is a major through route within a local area vs a minor through route within a local area? By definition, the definition will be dependent on the context. From

Re: [talk-au] Highway classifications

2010-06-13 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: By definition, the definition will be dependent on the context. From http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway: description of the importance of the highway for the road grid. To get any useful feedback from us, I

Re: [talk-au] Highway classifications

2010-06-13 Thread John Smith
On 14 June 2010 11:30, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately, I think it boils down to this: make it secondary if it's more important than nearby tertiary roads, and make it tertiary if it's less important than nearby secondary roads. Iterate. That seems to be circular

Re: [talk-au] Highway classifications

2010-06-13 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:35 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: So then what makes a trunk a trunk? dual carriage way? volume of traffic? Just had a look at the VicRoads website - they only classify roads as freeway, arterial, or other. Do other state bodies do similar? At least

Re: [talk-au] Highway classifications

2010-06-13 Thread John Smith
On 14 June 2010 15:15, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: But: is combining state and council road classifications a feasible approach? Presumably not every council will have a web-accessible register of roads with this kind of classification. Comments? Wouldn't most councils be using

Re: [talk-au] Highway classifications

2010-06-13 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:26 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Wouldn't most councils be using Australian/New Zealand Standards for things like this? In which case I'd be looking for the AS/NZ documents covering road classifications rather than going from the bottom up... Sure,

Re: [talk-au] Highway classifications

2010-06-13 Thread John Smith
On 14 June 2010 15:45, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, do you know what it is? In in case though, you're going to need a council document defining how each road is classified. Nope, others seem to either come across this as part of their work, or know others that do.