Never been further West than Parkes, I'm afraid. I guess this comes down to tagging what exists vs tagging intended use. For instance there are parts of the Pacific Highway which are 2 lanes but are tagged as trunk because they're the Pacific Highway and are therefore the most major road in the area.
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). ----- Original Message ----- From: John Smith <delta_foxt...@yahoo.com> Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 12:26 pm Subject: Re: [talk-au] residential and unclassified in Australia WAS definition of the main highway-tag To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org > > --- On Tue, 4/8/09, b.schulz...@scu.edu.au > <b.schulz...@scu.edu.au> wrote: > > > highway=rural seems a logical choice. > > Perhaps just work out a semi-rigid definition, such as: > > > > Any road which is: > > > > a) Primarily boarded by land used for primary production > > and > > b) Exists primarily to provide transport to service the > > properties adjacent to it. Ie: the majority of drivers on > > the road are traveling to or from a property rather than > > between rural centers. > > > > Thoughts? > > You haven't traveled much in western areas have you? :) > > Parts of National Highway 1 are a 4wd dirt track. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_1_(Australia) > > However there are numerous, mostly all weather gravel roads in > western NSW alone, although too much rain makes them unusable, > but the primary purpose in some cases is to go between towns but > the funding was never forth coming to seal them. > > Another good example is the Fitzroy Development Road in Northern QLD > > http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=- > 32.7508,151.5851&sll=-25.335448,135.745076&sspn=56.828725,114.169922&ie=UTF8&ll=-23.52307,149.431229&spn=0.465892,1.153564&z=11 > > It is rough as guts from what I've been told :) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >
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