[OSM-talk] tagging and rendering highways in the USA and elsewhere

[Dermot McNally]

On 18/04/2008, Jon Burgess <jburgess777 at googlemail.com> wrote:

> >From a purely functional perspective this approach seems to work. The
>  screenshot below shows what happens if you ask for the motorways in
>  Ireland to be rendered in purple:
>
>  http://tile.openstreetmap.org/direct/country-mways-example.png
>
>  The motorways in England and Northern Ireland still render in the
>  default blue.

So does the most northerly section of the M1 motorway in the Republic
of Ireland, a good 20km away from where that road actually crosses the
border. So while that's a nifty illustration, it shows that the
boundary information will need to get a lot better before we can rely
on it in all cases.

Dermot