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

[John Smith]

2009/9/21 Apollinaris Schoell <aschoell at gmail.com>:

> you shouldn't use well established tags in the wrong way. us_ny_ny_co is not
> a  network name. the network is I, US, ....

The US but is redundant, we just need to know what shield type, not
where it is located since there is a country polygon that already
points this out.

If there is special shields needed on a per state or per county basis
they need to be dealt with in other ways, just like they should be on
a per country basis, you shouldn't have to add this information to
ways otherwise we might as well tag every single node, way, area etc
with is_in tags too, again is_in is redundant because we can derive
this information easily by other means.

>  network is useful for routing applications too and should be used as signed
> in reality.
> If we need a tag for mapnik rendering call it mapnik:<something> or
> shildsymbolizersomething ....

If you need to tag for mapnik, mapnik is broken and needs to be fixed
you should never need to tag for it.