Re: [Talk-us] Current status with highway shields?

2013-10-10 Thread Evin Fairchild
Okay, but isn't the ultimate goal of this to get the shields on the map, for the whole world to see? I mean, if I was the one doing this, I wouldn't consider this a finished project until it was on the Standard (Mapnik) layer on openstreetmap.org, integrated into the Carto stylesheet. To be

Re: [Talk-us] Current status with highway shields?

2013-10-10 Thread Martijn van Exel
Country or region specific styles will have a hard time making it to the main osm.org layer I have a feeling, just because it makes the stylesheet more complex and there's only so many eyes on it. It would add a bunch of assets to the site that would only be used for U.S. rendering - and then

Re: [Talk-us] Current status with highway shields?

2013-10-10 Thread Phil! Gold
* Evin Fairchild evindf...@gmail.com [2013-10-09 19:54 -0700]: I emailed Phil Gold (creator of the awesome shield rendering) about this almost a month ago, but he never responded so this hasn't been fixed. Er, sorry about that. I've been extremely busy for about the past two months, and

[Talk-us] OSM US election ballots

2013-10-10 Thread Richard Welty
if you joined or renewed recently but have not received a ballot, you may have done so after the mailing list was exported. just drop me a note if you think this might have happened and we'll get it resolved. richard signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Talk-us] OSM US election ballots

2013-10-10 Thread Richard Welty
On 10/10/13 11:49 AM, Richard Welty wrote: if you joined or renewed recently but have not received a ballot, you may have done so after the mailing list was exported. just drop me a note if you think this might have happened and we'll get it resolved. it seems like there are a lot of issues

Re: [Talk-us] Current status with highway shields?

2013-10-10 Thread Evin Fairchild
I don't think the extra complexity of the shields slows down the time it takes to render them. But the tiles themselves on the shield map take way longer to load than on osm.org (which is why I really want the shields on the main OSM website), which I guess is because of a slower tileserver.

[Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2013-10-08

2013-10-10 Thread Dave Hansen
These are based off of Lambertus's work here: http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl If you have questions or comments about these maps, please feel free to ask. However, please do not send me private mail. The odds are, someone else will have the same questions, and by asking on the talk-us@