[Talk-us] Highway Shield Rendering

Phil! Gold phil_g at pobox.com
Tue Apr 3 17:40:44 BST 2012


* Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> [2012-04-03 08:57 -0700]:
> >> Oregon/Washington/Oklahoma State Tour Routes
> >
> > Not currently supported.  Can you point me at some information about
> > these?
> 
> I don't think there's been a real effort to tag these yet, the four in
> Oregon I'm aware of are the Lewis & Clark Trail, Oregon Trail,
> California (aka Applegate) Trail and the Oregon Outback Route.  Each
> of the first three seem to use their own trailblazers and may be
> interstate in scope.  The latter and newer routes use extremely large
> trailblazers.  http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/Oregon-Outback-Sign.jpg

I've added those to the TODO list.  I'll have to see if I can find example
images for most of them, and the Oregon Outback Route's image may prove to
be too much for my meager artistic ability.  (I've mostly been working off
of public domain images from Wikipedia.)

> All of Oklahoma's turnpikes use identical trailblazers, the only part
> that changes is the name on the top half of the roundel (in this case,
> "Indian Nations").
> http://www.aaroads.com/shields/show.php?image=OK20060731

Ah, okay.  I'll set them up just like other
named-but-not-publically-numbered routes like the New Jersey Turnpike and
look for network US:OK, no ref, and whetever their name is.

> FM and RM should render identically (obviously since they're actually
> the same network), LOOP, SPUR, NASA, Texas I all recognize.  I don't
> see TOLL or REC, and no idea what PR is...

As NE2 said, FM and RM differ in the text on the image, though the
rendered shields are too small to be able to tell.  We do have US:TX:Toll
and US:TX:RE also.  PR is Park Road.

As I said, most of them don't render at the moment (aside from the US:TX
roads), but there are some ranch-to-market roads that show up, like here:

http://elrond.aperiodic.net/shields/?zoom=14&lat=30.4855&lon=-99.44341&layers=B0

> > I chose to treat the Old San Antonio Road as a member of the US:TX network
> > with a ref of OSR.  I can't remember if it renders that way at the moment.

Ah.  It does.
http://elrond.aperiodic.net/shields/?zoom=14&lat=30.98139&lon=-96.2095&layers=B0

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