[Talk-us] Network edge cases

[Eric Patrick]

There shouldn’t be any confusion when coming to the state highways in
Texas. Light blue = TxTag toll roads while white & black signs = free road.

Eric

On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 14:22 Minh Nguyen <minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us>
wrote:

> Vào lúc 09:06 2022-01-27, Brian M. Sperlongano đã viết:
> > My take on this is:
> >
> > 1. If part of the road is toll, and part is not, accurately tagging the
> > toll parts as toll=yes is desirable, and we should render the toll
> > sections in a different color, as tagged.  The underlying schema
> > (OpenMapTiles) does not retrieve toll tagging from a route relation and
> > I think the current scheme of tagging toll status at the way level is an
> > acceptable and desirable approach.
>
> Florida and Texas have special shields for their numbered toll road
> route networks, so I don't think toll information on the route relations
> is necessarily redundant to toll=yes on the ways. The distinction can
> matter greatly for turn-by-turn navigation [1], though it may not matter
> as much on a map meant for browsing around.
>
> In Florida, the distinct toll shield has resulted in a distinct
> network=* value. [2] That should already be consumable by Americana
> without requiring any OpenMapTiles changes, compared to a separate
> toll=yes tag. However, toll=yes and modifier=Toll are being used on a
> number of route relations in Texas, mostly reflecting variations on the
> usual IH/US/SH shield. [3] We could try leaving out the special toll
> banners in Texas for now and revisit if the use of white SH shields
> instead of blue ones causes any confusion.
>
> [1]
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Road_signs/Generic_shields
> [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:network%3DUS:FL:Toll
> [3] https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1fvw
>
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