[Talk-us] Do we want overlaps to be rendered? Or do we want to wait for relation support that may never come?

[Nathan Edgars II]

On 5/10/2011 7:08 AM, Ian Dees wrote:
> Or you could simply apply the shields to the geometries created by route
> relations, greatly simplifying the ref parsing crap. Since the tile
> server is running Mapnik trunk-ish now, you should be able to use the
> SVG symbolizers (which should allow you to specify the contents of an
> SVG using a DB value rather than having separate SVGs for each shield).
>
So is this actually being worked on, or is it still the perfect that is 
getting in the way of better?

By the way, we'll always need rendering based on ways as a fallback, 
unless someone wants to make relations for every rural and suburban 
street in North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia.