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

[Andy Allan]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:

> I've been operating under the presumption that incremental
> improvements of shield branding across North America would be a good
> thing.  So if initially all county roads show a default county shield
> until the custom, local county shield is included, I think that is an
> improvement over the generic UK shield.

I don't know where you get the idea that a) there is a "UK shield" or
b) that the mapnik layer is using one. Road references are being shown
with a rectangle with heavily rounded corners, which AFAIK is not the
shape of a "shield" in any country, especially not the UK.

Now as for the discussion over whether it's preferable to show road
numbers superimposed on specific funny shapes on the map, that's one
I'll leave for cartographers to decide; personally I think it looks
naff but that doesn't stop other people from doing so.

Cheers,
Andy