[Talk-us] Road classification

[Scott Atwood]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Jason Straub <straub20 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Second, the color of the trunk highway concerns me a bit.  Any other
> mapping company, online or not, uses the green line as a tollway.  When I
> initially started, I was makring highways as trunks, only to see most of the
> region covered with toll routes.  So I switched them back.  I personally
> think that toll routes should have special coloring or highlighting to set
> them apart from free routes, but that's just me.
>

I suspect that the color conventions used for motorway and trunk highways in
the default OSM rendering are derived from UK mapping conventions.
There are many instances were one might want distinctive rendering on an
region-by-region basis.  More pominent rendering of sub-national
administrative boundaries in the U.S. is another case.    As far as I
understand, whether for technical or policy reasons, such regional rendering
differences are not done in the default OSM rendering.

-Scott

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Scott Atwood

Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.  ~H.G. Wells
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