[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>:
> yes (btw: "similar" is probably not what would be permitted, I guess it must
> be "identical" to get permission), but I'm pretty sure as soon as we
> implement them, we'll get thousands of those (fuel stations, fast-food,
> supermarkets, drugstores) and will have to discuss about brands / neutrality
> / advertising. If we agree that it is desirable to display logos on our maps
> then we should collect and store the permissions for the use of those (will
> all generally be protected as trademarks) e.g. in the wiki.

At this stage that's a pipe dream, we can't even render custom highway
shields, once we have that licked we can think about other things like
this.

> While I'm not sure if I support the implementation of all kind of custom
> logos (e.g. Mc Donald's), I do support it for public transport.  Have a look
> here:
> http://mic-ro.com/metro/metrologos-static.html
> the london underground is just the top of the iceberg ;-)

Maybe someone needs to start a wish list on the wiki of custom signs
they'd like to see rendered, it seems this could be extensive.

Maybe we just need to do a lookup in post-processing and attach the
shield icon at that point to the database, although I'm not sure how
the best way to do this would be since you might need polygons already
in the database before you can assign highway shields for a country
etc.