[talk-au] I've been trying to fix the highway shields and came across this....

[John Smith]

--- On Tue, 18/8/09, BlueMM <bluemm1975-osm at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I don't think the outer green border is worth showing a
> different shield,
> just make them all the same.

It takes little effort and an extra tag on the relation to have this information. If we can do it why shouldn't we?
 
> Maybe it's worth creating a Australian rendering page on
> the wiki where we
> can collect all the different route signs. With the addr:
> specifier, there's
> no reason why we can't get the Australian/state specific
> shields into the
> main OSM map (mapnik).

That is the ultimate goal :)

However if we can tag all major and a good number of minor highways this way we can then submit a patch+shield graphics showing the valid shields.

> Is the tiny differences worth it? I don't think so

It takes very little effort to add a country and state information to the ref=* relation, so why not?
 
> That seems contrary to the new changes to the Australian
> Tagging Guidelines

Work in progress, how could this be explained better? :)

> regarding M/A/B/C Alphanumeric routes (ie. this proposal).
> It seems to me to
> apply to all road routes. Most of the B&C rural roads I
> know in Victoria are
> not highways.

Most B&C roads would mostly be a single segment or close to it too. Obviously that section of the wiki needs updating.