[Talk-us] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!

[Toby Murray]

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Phil! Gold <phil_g at pobox.com> wrote:
> I don't see any special cases for multiple route membership, and it looks
> like road segments that belong to more than one route don't get any
> shields rendered.  (That, to me, will be the biggest benefit of
> route-relation-based shield rendering, if anyone gets it working
> properly.)

I see shields being rendered for ways that have multiple ref values:
http://open.mapquest.co.uk/mq/7-_nm8O2RaRCO5sLEy

I 70 and US 40 are the same road through most of Kansas. Things get
kind of confusing when you zoom in. It seems like they may be randomly
choosing which shield to render or something... At some zoom levels I
see only US 40 shields on part of the way and only I 70 shields on
other parts. If you zoom in all the way they are interspersed a little
more but still seem to clump together at times.

Has there ever been any consideration for using the symbol= tag in the
route relationships to dynamically pull in shields from the listed
source? I'm not sure if that would really be a good idea or not
though...