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

[John Smith]

2009/12/23 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:
> 2009/12/22 Charlie Ferrero <charlie at cferrero.net>
>>
>> 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.
>
> this goes even further: colours for highways, busstops, ...
>
> But how do we want to tag those? Shall there be a tag specifying the logo on
> every feature? Should it be done by translating the operator-tag? Would it
> be possible to maintain a parallel database with these informations and
> corelate it by polygons /  locations / ids?

Previously someone suggested that some of the work to calculate
information should be dealt with in pre-processing, which is probably
a sensible idea to reduce the time to render tiles that aren't already
cached, so a lookup table might not be such a bad idea.

As for operator logos, we recently imported a bunch of BP amenity=fuel
locations and I was only pondering how it would be nice to make them
render an icon similar to their logo.