[Talk-us] Highway Shield Rendering

[Nathan Edgars II]

On 4/5/2012 8:14 AM, Phil! Gold wrote:
> New York's parkways have a similar problem with legibility.  One of my
> plans for dealing with them is to use larger shield images at high zoom
> levels.

The Long Island parkways are nice and legible: 
http://alpsroads.net/roads/ny/ocean/e3.jpg

Most other parkways use large initial caps in a green state route 
shield: http://alpsroads.net/roads/ny/sawmill/begin.jpg
It should be reasonable to simply use the abbreviation horizontally, 
like the occasional (erroneous) sign: 
http://alpsroads.net/roads/ny/taconic/tsp.jpg