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

[Liz]

On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Apollinaris Schoell wrote:
> US is meant for US highway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Highways
> They uses signs with US printed on it. So the symbol needs the same
> which is different from US interstates where only a capital I is  
> printed on the shield
Ok, that would make sense, better than here where we have apparently random 
letter combinations on shields which don't occur on the signs at all
eg NR  NH  S
with a numeral which does appear on the highway marker