[Talk-us] Time to retire ref= on ways?

[Paul Johnson]

Apollinaris Schoell wrote:

>
> On 8 Mar 2010, at 10:10 , Richard Welty wrote:
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>> On 3/8/10 12:52 PM, Apollinaris Schoell wrote:
>>> fully agree we should keep this target in mind.
>>> But first we have to resolve a long list of problems first.
>>> there shouldn't be any time when the renderer or other data consumers will be left with completely broken data because step2 was done before step1
>>> osm doesn't have any way of enforcing anything we need to be careful to kill the dinosaur too early
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 1) route relation tagging has to be defined, agreed and accepted widely. currently it's a mess.
>>>   
>> agree on straightening out tagging. the ref tag on a route relation is a free-for-all right now, and there
>> is not a clear concensus on the network tag either. on the other hand, if symbol is there and points at
>> an appropriate svg file for a shield (which it generally does) then rendering may be straightforward.
>
> shield rendering is a wish for many for a long time. but so far no one came up with a practical solution. also there is no consensus if this will ever go upstream to Mapnik because it will break the unified global rendering on osm.org But that shouldn't stop anyone to setup a US specific rendering with shields.

Richard Welte came up with the network naming scheme that should
make this possible; it's already in live usage throughout much of
Cascadia.