Re: [Talk-us] US Route Tagging With Relations

2008-12-24 Thread Zeke Farwell
Chris, Thanks for putting up that table. Looks great. I have two suggestions: I think the network identifiers should be simpler. What about this scheme? Interstate = Interstate signed highway system US = US signed highway system [state abbr.] = State signed highway system TX = Texas CA =

Re: [Talk-us] US Route Tagging With Relations

2008-12-24 Thread Alan Brown
A couple thoughts: 1)  Commercial data providers have use a route type parameter that designates something as an Interstate, Federal Highway, State Highway, County Road, or Farm-to-Market road.  This code does not distinguish between states; all state highways have the same route type. 

Re: [Talk-us] US Route Tagging With Relations

2008-12-24 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: Alan Brown writes: 3) There should be a place for people to contribute highway shields - as metadata. To make life even more interesting, New York State renders placenames in the Adirondack Park using beige on brown,

Re: [Talk-us] US Route Tagging With Relations

2008-12-24 Thread Zeke Farwell
Yeah we're getting a little ahead of ourselves with the shields. The first step is tagging the highways in a standard scheme which would give a renderer sufficient data to draw shields. Then someone has to actually build a renderer that draws the shields. Thats a whole other can of worms. I

Re: [Talk-us] US Route Tagging With Relations

2008-12-24 Thread Karl Newman
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Zeke Farwell ezeki...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah we're getting a little ahead of ourselves with the shields. The first step is tagging the highways in a standard scheme which would give a renderer sufficient data to draw shields. Then someone has to actually

[Talk-us] Fwd: US Route Tagging With Relations

2008-12-24 Thread lordsutch
Sorry meant to send to all... -- Forwarded message -- From: lordsu...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:56:48 -0600 Subject: Re: [Talk-us] US Route Tagging With Relations To: Zeke Farwell ezeki...@gmail.com Personally I think it's best to let the renderer be as stupid as