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

John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 03:33:39 BST 2009


2009/9/21 Richard Weait <richard at weait.com>:

> They will tag it.  Absolutely they will tag it.  When Mapnik support
> for local shields is adopted on osm.org and announced on talk-US it
> will take less than 7 days for the US Interstate system to have shiny
> new shields from coast to coast.  I'll send you a bottle of Canadian
> Maple Syrup if I am wrong.

Except they are tagging what they see with street address information,
you don't see what you are suggesting any where, this is meta
information and belongs as such.

> "S" and "I" are so lacking context as to approach line-noise.
> "us_ny_ny_co" even hints at the right answer, without reading the
> docs.

fine, tag it network=interstate_shield, network=state_shield,
network=county_shield, but tagging network=us_ny_ny_co is tagging for
the renderer, you won't ever ever find that on a sign, and it's not
verifiable, if I go to ny county, ny, us I won't know the difference
to the adjcent county etc, we're not supposed to embed symbol
information for the renderer and this is exactly what you are
suggesting we do.

> I agree that failover to the UK style shield is better than nothing.

It's what already exists, I fail to see why this should be an issue.




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