[OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Country Specific Route Markers

[Brent Easton]

Thanks Darryl,

Have come to the same conclusion myself and changed our standards for Australia. Only had the last standard for 2 days. But then, that's the great thing about standards, there are so many to choose from ;)

Cheers,
Brent.

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On 15/08/2007 at 8:26 AM Darryl Shpak  wrote:

>Brent Easton wrote:
>> Could someone post a brief summary of the the current state of play with
>country-specific route marking (i.e. showing the correct
>highway/state/tourist route shields) in both Mapnik and Osmarender?
>>
>> Is there a wiki page for this?
>>
>> Is there a consensus on the best way to encode this information now?
>>
>> We have developed a scheme to use in Australia to mark Australian routes
>using a ref:au= tag:
>>
>>   
>
>In Canada, we've been simply using ref= to hold the highway numbers, and 
>highway=trunk/primary/secondary/etc. to specify the legal status of the 
>road. For instance, in my province, Manitoba, the highway network can be 
>broken down into:
>
>National highway system highways (highway=trunk)
>Provincial trunk highways (highway=primary)
>Provincial roads (highway=secondary)
>
>Then, I use ref= to hold the highway number. The general idea is to use 
>generic/standard tags as much as possible, so that any renderer or route 
>planner or other tool can understand them. Then, we want to create 
>country- or province-specific rules for the renderers, which would be 
>able to draw these generic tags in a localized manner (drawing the ref 
>numbers for the various classes of highway in the correct shield).
>
>- Darryl
>
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Brent Easton                       
Analyst/Programmer                               
University of Western Sydney                                   
Email: b.easton at uws.edu.au