[Talk-ca] [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

[Adam Schreiber]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 04:39 -0500, Joseph Jon Booker wrote:
>> On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:54:12 -0500
>> Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Nicholas Vetrovec
>> > <nickvet419 at yahoo.com>wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> > > Posted on the US Page to help coordinate US Interstate relations.
>> > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Interstate_Highways_Relations
>> > >
>> >
>> > Since interstate highways are usually two separate one-way ways,
>> > which way (or both?) do we add to the relation?
>>
>> US routes can also become two separate one-ways when becoming
>> express ways or trunk ways, while being a regular two-way street the
>> rest of the way, so it probably doesn't make sense to have separate
>> directions. Perhaps a proposal can be made for having
>> role=North|South|East|West for type=route relations?
>
> Perhaps direction=North|South|West|East, or cardinal=North|South|West|
> East?
>
>> Also, wouldn't it make sense to have the way a route is displayed as
>> the name? For example, network=I,ref=90 would have name="I 90", and
>> network=US:IL, ref=58 would have name="IL 58" in the relations.
>
> I prefer "_" to ":" or ";" in this case as "_" can be used in a filename
> without escaping.
>
> network=us_i_2 # Interstate (2 digit) us_i_3 for 3 digit
> network=us_us_2 # US Route us_us_3 for 3 digit
> network=us_ny # NY State Route
> network=us_ny_county #
>
> and so on.  The network value plugs directly into the shield symbolizer
> in mapnik for an easy renderer fix.  The shield images can be
> network_us_i_3.png to keep them all in order in the directory.
>
> I've got a demonstration of highway shields working here:
> http://weait.com/maps/  Please be gentle on this unsuspecting box and
> narrow pipe.
>
> To make shields work for everybody, I'd like to see
>
> - "network=" supported in highway ways, relations and super-relations
> - further graphics work to refine the highway shield symbols for size /
> centering
> - wide adoption of the newly supported network tag.
> - repair of the many broken ref= tags that read I-190 or even Interstate
> 190, etc.
>
> Blog entry with more details here.
> http://weait.com/content/badges-badges

The highway badges you've added look great.  Are you working on
pushing your changes upstream?

Cheers,

Adam