On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 16:31:38 +1000 Ian Sergeant <[email protected]> wrote:
> The Princes Highway is an historical curiosity, and internal name > management name assigned by the NSW roads authority, and the name of > a bunch of roads between Sydney and Adelaide. > > It isn't a route any longer. > > I'm sure people say they are going to drive the Princes Highway from > Sydney to Melbourne, but you can never pin it down to actual set of > roads. They just mean they are driving down the coast, as opposed to > the Hume. It is a useful turn of phrase, but it is a mapping > anachronism. So you would be happier if there was a fourth dimension n the data, that of time? So that you could mark a route as 'original princes highway' and another route as 'princes highway 1990' and so on? _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
