[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap Americana - Announcing a new American map style and call for collaborators!

[Elliott Plack]

Great work Brian and Collaborators! I too would love to see those shields
use the FHWA standard  Highway Gothic - Wikipedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Gothic> fonts where applicable. They
should be public domain as works of the US Federal Government.
- Elliott


On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 3:57 PM Brian M. Sperlongano <zelonewolf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 3:49 PM Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:
>
>> Fantastic. Are files from Wikimedia Commons usable / permissable? Like
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Utah_298.svg ?
>>
>
> Yes - provided they are public domain or CC0 (as that one is).  The
> challenge is styling the shield for appropriate display at 20-40px
> (depending on resolution).  This means that for more intricate designs,
> it's often necessary to simplify the graphics and remove the black
> background fill for a clean, readable shield.  Generally I have taken the
> approach of extracting the most recognizable shape of the shield and
> styling that for display.  The ones we've completed so far are generally on
> the easier end of that spectrum, with less work to convert the graphics
> into something easy on the eyes.  So in the Utah case, I would probably
> remove the inner detail and background, leaving just the overall beehive
> shape for the route marker.
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