[Talk-us] Highway Shield Rendering

James Umbanhowar jumbanho at gmail.com
Tue Apr 3 15:54:15 BST 2012


On Tuesday, April 03, 2012 08:17:16 AM Phil! Gold wrote:
> * Minh Nguyen <mxn at 1ec5.org> [2012-04-03 02:19 -0700]:
> 
> > I'd prefer to see the shields strung out along the concurrency, with
> > no spacing between each shield. That would be especially helpful
> > where the concurrency's shields happen to appear near a junction.
> > Google Maps does that, but they space the shields apart somewhat.
> 
> This is something that would probably look nice, but is difficult
> (possibly impossible) to do in Mapnik.  I'll see what I can do and how it
> looks on the map.
> 

I don't know if they use Mapnik, but I like the way Stamen places their 
shields along concurrencies.  e.g. 
http://maps.stamen.com/terrain/#15/39.7542/-86.0373

Your current work is awesome!





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