<div><div dir="auto">Re: “On standard [OpenStreetMap-]carto (and probably most others) highway=milestone doesn't render.”</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There is an open issue and some rendering ideas from a year back:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/3605">https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/3605</a></div><br></div><div dir="auto">If anyone wants to help get historic=milestone rendered, they can help design a good rendering or submit a PR on github: it’s an all-volunteer, open-source project.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-Joseph</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 9:55 PM Paul Allen <<a href="mailto:pla16021@gmail.com">pla16021@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 13:26, santamariense <<a href="mailto:imagens.sm@gmail.com" target="_blank">imagens.sm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
> that you should not use the term "milestone" but something like<br>
> addr:distance or<br>
> addr:road_marker or whatever, because there are no milestones<br>
<br>
addr:road_marker seems to be appropriate</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Or something with similar meaning. Places that use this addressing system presumably</div><div>have some name for that part of an address. So that if you tell somebody what road your house</div><div> is on and they want to know more precisely, they ask you what your X is. I doubt they ask you</div><div> what your milestone is. Same for forms where there are boxes for road, town, county (maybe)</div><div>post/zip code (maybe), there is presumably a box labelled X, and I doubt that label is</div><div>"milestone."</div><div><br></div><div>Also of consideration is that if somebody uses the query tool of standard carto to get</div><div>the address of a house, will addr:milestone make any sense to them or will it just</div><div>confuse them?<br></div><div><br></div><div>I did some more digging (which the original poster should have done, if not at first then at</div><div>least after several people suggested "milestone" was inappropriate). What OSM calls</div><div>highway=milestone is a "highway location marker." Which is used in addresses as a</div><div> "linear referencing system." So addr:highway_location or addr:linear_reference or</div><div> addr:road_marker or something similar based upon what people who live in areas with that</div><div> kind of address call that part of the address.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">but highway=milestone, even<br>
misleading its name can be, is already in use and I think it would be<br>
better to keep a relation between their names.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>On standard carto (and probably most others) highway=milestone doesn't render. And those</div><div>milestones-that-aren't-really-milestones are probably only rarely mapped, whereas</div><div>addresses frequently are mapped. In any case, as people have pointed out, the highway</div><div> location markers either side of the address may not be present. So the only reason for keeping</div><div> a relation between the names is if we're going to map every marker and use an OSM relation to</div><div> bind addresses to markers (which will still fail if there's no marker present).</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div></div></div>
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