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

[Kevin Kenny]

See the Roadgeek fonts https://github.com/sammdot/roadgeek-fonts for more
information.  While Highway Gothic may be a US Government work, the newer
Clearview font series was commissioned and is private, as is the Clarendon
font used on National Park Service signage. Rawlinson is a good free
alternative to Clarendon, and Clearview is now being phased out again.

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 4:08 PM Elliott Plack <elliott.plack at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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