[OSM-talk] Patch to render names from routes and custom highway shields on a per country basis

[Charlie Ferrero]

John Smith wrote:
> 2009/9/21 Richard Weait <richard at weait.com>:
>>    <Rule>
>>      <Filter>[highway] = 'motorway' and [length] = 8</Filter>
>>      <MaxScaleDenominator>1000000</MaxScaleDenominator>
>>      <MinScaleDenominator>100</MinScaleDenominator>
>>      <ShieldSymbolizer name="ref" face_name="DejaVu Sans Bold"
>> size="10" fill="#fff" placement="line" file=
>> "%SYMBOLS_DIR%/mot_shield7.png" type="png" width="59" height="17"
>> min_distance="30" spacing="750"/>
>>    </Rule>
> 
> This thread died some time ago, has any progress been made with mapnik
> or anything else that would easily allow at least custom shields for
> the main routes of a country?
> 
> There is a lot of people that would love to see something more
> familiar and less bland show up on map tiles. The majority of
> non-OSMers expect maps to look a certain way and even Google is
> rendering custom highway shields differently for different countries.
> 
> If we want to win the hearts and minds of non-mappers we need to fill
> certain expectations of what a regular map should look like.
> 
Ditto showing custom station symbols (e.g. the London Underground 
symbol, or a non-copyright version of same).  It's much harder to spot a 
tube stop on the OSM london map than it is on the Google map for this 
reason.

Charlie