[Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

[Greg Troxel]

Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> writes:

> Why make this more complicated than it has to be?  Leave the names on
> the underlying way, not the relations; leave the refs on the relations,
> not the underlying ways.  Then it's a matter of fixing mapnik and t at h to
> do the right thing, since relations are set up better to handle things
> like route symbols.

I don't follow why you think the name belongs on the way.  I would think
that if there was a named road in a state that should be relation, and
that relation a member of the interstate relation for the state, and
that a member of the entire interstate relation.  The key property to be
supported is arbitrarily nested relations.
  
> I'm not logged in on the wiki right now to fix this on the relations
> list page, but we should probably recommend including a URL to a freely
> reproducible SVG of the route marker so someone has the motivation to
> fix rendering of numbered highways to use refs on relations in addition
> to (or better yet: instead of) underlying ways, they can render
> something other than the fugly ref symbols currently used, and instead
> use the same symbol used along the actual route.

I don't see why symbol source is related to whether the ref is on a
relation or a way.  But I agree that having symbols someplace where all
renderers can get at them would be nice.

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