[Talk-us] Route relation pages

[Nathan Mills]

Route relation tagging is explained on the wiki:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:route#Road_routes

On 6/22/2013 7:21 PM, Evin Fairchild wrote:
> I get that you say that keeping wiki pages up to date with the status of
> route relations is a pain, but I do hope that this new form of tagging
> routes will get explained on the wiki. The wiki is really useful (even
> with experienced mappers like me) as documentation for how to use tags,
> and it’s very important that it’s explained there. Besides, there are
> probably many mappers that may not be aware of this discussion, let
> alone the fact that these mailing lists even /exist/.
>
> -Compdude
>
> *From:*Martijn van Exel [mailto:m at rtijn.org]
> *Sent:* Friday, June 21, 2013 8:35 PM
> *To:* OSM US Talk
> *Subject:* [Talk-us] Route relation pages
>
> Hi,
>
> A few of us were talking about setting up custom highway shield
> rendering on the US tile server earlier this week. Because this
> rendering relies heavily on route relations (rather than ref tags on the
> way, as the default mapnik stylesheet does) we need a better way to
> track the status of numbered route relations. The wiki pages are a PITA
> to maintain and thus not very reliable.
>
> So I spent a little time on pages that always show the current status of
> US numbered route relations, plus some handy links to relation tools.
> See for example the interstate relations page here:
>
> http://maproulette.org/relationpages/interstates.html
>
> There is no nice index page yet, for now you have to look for your state
> of interest in here:
>
> http://maproulette.org/relationpages/
>
> There are pages for each state, for the US routes, and for the Interstates.
>
> Code (pretty messy) is on github, here:
> https://github.com/mvexel/relationpages - if you want to help out and
> make this more useful, fork away.
>
> The pages are currently being refreshed every four hours. This could be
> increased.
>
> Let me know what you think, how this could be improved, and so on.
>
> --
> Martijn van Exel
> http://oegeo.wordpress.com/
> http://openstreetmap.us/
>
>
>
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