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

[Phil! Gold]

* Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> [2010-07-21 00:19 -0700]:
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:15:18 -0400, Phil! Gold wrote:
> > I what way does OpenCycleMap get this right?  As far as I can tell, it
> > doesn't render road shields at all.
> 
> No, but it does render route relations.

It's the shields I want, and they're harder than just rendering relations
at all, because the information I need is split between the regular roads
and the route relations.  The relations have the data for the shields, but
the roads have the highway= tag that indicates when the shields need to be
rendered.  I'd also prefer to be able to say "if this road has a ref=, but
is not a member of a route relation, render the ref=", but that's a giant
pain to do.

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