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

[Lennard]

John Smith wrote:

> This is one reason to do these sorts of routes as relations instead of
> trying to cram lots of information into the way, you then should avoid
> overlapping shields if the rendering process is doing it's job.

Relations hold a certain advantage in this case, but we have to consider 
the non-relation variants as well.

> If it's just ref numbers changing that shouldn't need anything more
> than to split the way would it?

Indeed, but I'm thinking ahead here, to a situation where the style of 
the road itself would change at a border.

-- 
Lennard