[Talk-us] Route Relation Nitpicking

[Nathan Edgars II]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Zeke Farwell <ezekielf at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> i think the rendered pseudo-shields probably need to show some reference
>> to the network
>> the highway is in, otherwise you'd not know what kind of shield you're
>> looking for.
>
> Yes, to be clear I was not suggesting that network prefixes are a bad thing
> for a renderer to show, just that I don't think they belong in the ref tag.
>  I don't see why a renderer can't use ref and network to display "US 7" or
> "7" on a US shield graphic.

You'd have to make the renderers support relations first. I'd be happy
with just breaking the ref tag on the way into separate shields at
semicolons (as was done recently with linebreaks for
highway=motorway_junction name=*:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=28.4205&lon=-81.46289&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF)
and then maybe converting each of those into a special shield shape.
Here's the bug report: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2675