[Talk-ca] Provincial highway route relations in Ontario

Richard Weait richard at weait.com
Tue May 19 03:57:19 BST 2009


On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 22:17 -0400, Victor Bielawski wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com>
> wrote:
>         
>         I've been using network=ca_on_primary and I still like it.
>          This can be
>         extended for special cases like QEW (different colour)
>         
>         ca_on_primary_qew
>         
>         or Highway of Heroes (additional shield)
>         
>         ca_on_primary_hoh
>         
>         It keeps the shield symbolizer simple for mapnik, and reduces
>         the risk
>         of collisions with networks in other countries.  It also sorts
>         the
>         images nicely by area in the image directory.
> 
> Since there hasn't been any other responses, I'll change 401 [1] and
> 402 [2] to ca_on_primary and 407 [3] to ca_on_etr. If anyone disagrees
> with this, please speak up.
> 
> [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/109563
> [2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/109572
> [3] http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/109574

I'd go with ca_on_primary_etr for 407/etr.  Even if a renderer/reader
doesn't understand the "etr" portion it can generalize to ca_on_primary?
Just as qew is "primary with a special shield".  

Best regards,
Richard






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