On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Tom Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/01/11 11:05, David Murn wrote: >> On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 19:47 +0000, Tom Hughes wrote: >>> On 10/01/11 19:00, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>>> American usage would be to refer to that as a road, just not a very >>>> high-quality road. I take it that, in Britain, there are certain minimum >>>> standards for being called a road? >>> >>> Nothing official, but it would be very unusual for anybody to call >>> something that wasn't surfaced a road. >> >> Crikey, dont let them see the Old Eyre Highway across southern >> Australia, or the Outback Highway[1] across Central Australia. >> Together over 3000km of highly travelled road, connecting the western >> coast of the country to the central/eastern regions. > > Sure, but if you read you will notice that I was specifically answering > a question about what that would be called in the UK, not what it would > be called in Australia.
The more important question is what the tag means. Or is highway=road a tag which has a different definition in every state? _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
