[Openstreetmap] UK Motorways 100% Complete

Frank Mohr f_mohr at yahoo.de
Sat Jan 7 15:09:44 GMT 2006


Simon Hewison wrote:
>
> Is there a reason you chose thick black to represent a motorway? Almost
> every (european) map I've seen uses a thick mid-blue with a black
> outline to represent a motorway carriageway. This colour corresponds
> with the standard colour of motorway signs, which in HTML speak is
> COLOR="#007BC6".
> 
> (Though Australia, USA and a few others use green for their motorway signs)
> 

there are a lot of other different color representations

thin black/orange/yellow/orange/thin black  -- Germany and France
thin orange/yellow/thin orange              -- Germany small scale
red/white/red                               -- ICAO Aironautical
thin black/orange/thick black/orange/thin black -- NATO maps
red brown double solid thin lines           -- MIL 89045
         (you could download the symbol set from nima.mil some
          time ago, but i didn't find any prg. that handled
          "CGM Version 4" on linux)
thick black/white/thin black/white/thick black  -- topo maps,
                                            Switzerland 1:25000

thick black/yellow/thin black/yellow/thick black

                                            -- Switzerland

	

	
		
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