This is a common problem with road naming in Victoria. That is, multiple names are assigned to the one section of road. Often it is VicRoads declaring an administrative arterial road name, declared under the Road Management Act 2004 (RMA), where there already exists a different local name, usually within towns/hamlets. Kerang - Lalbert Road however is not a VicRoads arterial road but is a council municipal road. Councils are also prone to giving multiple names to roads as is the case here. This is demonstrated on the VICNAMES website where both Smith Street and Kerang - Lalbert Road can be searched for the same section of road within the hamlet of Lalbert. See attached VICNAMES link: https://maps.land.vic.gov.au/lassi/VicnamesUI.jsp For simplicity I believe only one name is required for any section of road. If a road, for example from one town to another requires an administrative tag, then the existing route numbers M, A, B, C could perhaps be used. These route numbers generally very closely represent the VicRoads freeway and arterial classified road network. See attached link to the VicRoads declared road network: http://vicroadsmapsmaps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=e8fa54687853433eb58e51584b36f681 Councils are required to maintain a 'Register of Public Roads' under the RMA where both Smith Street and Kerang - Lalbert Road could be listed, by the Gannawarra Shire in this case, for the separate sections of this municipal road. Unfortunately Gannawarra Shire do not make their register available on their website. I suspect the elimination of multiple road names should be addressed by the legislation under which VICNAMES operates.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Slater" To: Cc: Sent:Mon, 16 Jan 2017 10:30:36 +1100 Subject:[talk-au] Advice on Tags in a Hamlet G'day all, We needed our daughter to pick something up from Lalbert and since she had never driven there herself, we looked up the map. However, Smith St did not appear, instead tagged as the Lalbert Kerang Rd, as here: https:// www.openstreetmap.org/way/80838220#map=17/-35.67595/143.37920 For the locals and for street numbers, it is Smith St, at least from the Swan Hill - Donald road to the rail tracks. How can I tag to reflect this, leaving the Lalbert - Kerang tag for the bigger picture? On a secondary note, the node for Lalbert is in the middle of empty land: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1774352212#map=16/-35.6726/143.3759 Should this be moved a bit more centrally, like near the cafe and garage on Main St? I have seen both these scenarios a few times in the hamlets around here. Apart from tidiness, would this also improve routing? -- Regards Simon Slater Registered Linux User #463789 @ http://linuxcounter.net _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
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