2009/9/22 Richard Weait <rich...@weait.com>: > Now everything I know about Australian highways I learned from Mel > Gibson in _The Road Warrior_ so I have much to learn. What is the > shield landscape like in Australia? >
Queensland is in the (slow) process of changing to alphanumeric designations, starting with the main highways. It also has a lot of local (state) routes. The main problem with them, is that many of the numbers are used twice. They only use two digit numbers, and they have more than a hundred local routes, as the state is enormous - bigger then Alaska, or about 3/4 of the area of Western Europe. Pretty much every secondary (or better) road in the SE Metropolitan area is a State route, and a lot of these numbers are reused on rural roads in other parts of the state. It's generally not too much of a problem, but something to be aware of. These numbers would be B roads in the new alphanumeric system (I think), but I've never seen a Bnn sign in Qld, the signs are just a blue shield with the number. They've pretty much changed all the A and M roads to the new designations, but I'm not sure if they're going to keep working down the list to the lower roads or not. Stephen _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
