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

[John Smith]

2009/9/20 Lennard <ldp at xs4all.nl>:
> Relations hold a certain advantage in this case, but we have to consider the
> non-relation variants as well.

They end up in the DB more or less identical, it just means 2 queries
or a join etc instead of a simpler query.

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

The suggestion you made to prevent style bleed sounds like tagging for
the renderer, if that does occur the renderer should be fixed instead.