[talk-au] [OSM-talk] RFC: Tagging and rendering Australianhighwaynumbers

[Ian Sergeant]

b.easton at uws.edu.au wrote:

> I would really like to sort out some general Australian specific
> scheme we can use for tagging now that can potentially be rendered
> nicely by Cameron, and hopefully eventually on Mapnik and Osmarender.

I like the idea of using ref:au=.  That way any non-configured renderer
(like the default OSM page) will not attempt to render them, and it leaves
':' as a separator for situations where there are more than one reference

> ref:au=H1     Highway 1 - (black on white shield)

National Route - "NR"

> ref:au=N31    National Highway - (yellow on green shield)

National Highway - "NH"

> ref:au=M2     Metroad (blue on white hexagon)

"MR" for metroad - M means motorway to me.

> ref:au=S151   State Route  (white on blue shield)
> ref:au=T5     Tourist Route (white on brown shield)

brown pentagon.

> ref:au=A1     A Roads in states that have them (white on green
rectangle?)
> ref:au=B2     B Roads in states that have them (white on green
rectangle?)
> ref:au=C3     C Roads in states that have them (white on green
rectangle?)

yellow on green oblong.

> Please, rip this proposal to shreds...What have I missed? Are there
> state variations we need to cater for (ref:au:vic=C2)?

Add Motorway - "M".  I don't think we need Freeway - that signage appears
to have been completely abandoned (although some freeway style roads are
still signed as state or national highways)

National standards are emerging with alphanumeric naming etc coming into
play.  It would be a shame to have to adopt too many local idiosyncrasies.

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http://expressway.paulrands.com/, has a guide to routes.  The guys there
may even help us if we asked nicely, as they look pretty into this sort of
thing..
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Ian.