[Talk-ko] Road labeling

[Jeffrey Martin]

Let me try to summarize a few things.

There are two different pieces of information. One is the physical make up
of the road, and the other is the legal name and designation. From what I've
read on the list this is somewhat the same thing in the UK, but not in other
countries. This is particularly true in Korea where they are improving roads
at a relatively fast pace and a one lane gravel road can become four lane
paved and still have the a number in a box as it's designator. That was a
hyperbole but we shouldn't infer anything about the physicality of the road
from the sign on the signpost except for the motorways.

Having people measuring the road and putting in a lot of fields about lanes
and shoulder size is kind of tedious. Therefore it makes sense to assign
names to physical types.

The roads need some kind of code for circle, rectangle, hexagon, octagon,
and interstate shield, along with a code for motorcycle restriction on the
one hand. (I'm pretty sure the hexagon and octagon shapes are used
interchangeably.) And on the other hand something that says what kind of
road they are.

This all has to be done in such a way that it is compatible with the way
these things get interpreted by the rendering software so that it isn't too
hard for them to write the code.

-- 
Jeffrey John Martin
dogshed at gmail.com
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