Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-12 Thread Phil! Gold
* Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org [2012-04-11 17:33 -0700]: On Apr 11, 2012 11:48 AM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: From what I've read, all US highways in California should get similar treatment, in that they're signed with different shields than the standard ones. Are there other

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 5:01 AM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: * Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org [2012-04-11 17:33 -0700]: On Apr 11, 2012 11:48 AM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: From what I've read, all US highways in California should get similar treatment, in that they're

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-11 Thread Phil! Gold
* Craig Hinners cr...@hinnerspace.com [2012-04-08 07:07 -0700]: Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com: It seems to me that network=US:US:Business:MD is the logical extension of a scheme that has US:US and US:US:Business. My initial reaction is that this goes too far in mixing geographic,

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Apr 11, 2012 11:48 AM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: From what I've read, all US highways in California should get similar treatment, in that they're signed with different shields than the standard ones. Are there other regional sign variants for broader road networks in the US (or

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Apr 4, 2012 12:29 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/4/2012 2:43 PM, Chris Lawrence wrote: Renderers can fallback to the longest left-anchored substring they understand for weird things they don't understand. Bad idea. Google Maps does something like this and it

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-08 Thread Craig Hinners
Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com: It seems to me that network=US:US:Business:MD is the logical extension of a scheme that has US:US and US:US:Business. My initial reaction is that this goes too far in mixing geographic, classification, and rendering concepts, which has a bad smell: * It forces one

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-08 Thread Craig Hinners
Chris Lawrence lordsu...@gmail.com: modifier=* would represent MUTCD-type banners attached to the shield This is the first I've heard of this tag. I don't recall it being discussed when we were hashing ideas around on this last summer. (Not that that is reason to discount it.) But what came out

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-08 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 4/8/2012 10:27 AM, Craig Hinners wrote: Chris Lawrencelordsu...@gmail.com: modifier=* would represent MUTCD-type banners attached to the shield This is the first I've heard of this tag. I don't recall it being discussed when we were hashing ideas around on this last summer. (Not that that

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-08 Thread Michal Migurski
On Apr 8, 2012, at 7:49 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 4/8/2012 10:27 AM, Craig Hinners wrote: Chris Lawrencelordsu...@gmail.com: modifier=* would represent MUTCD-type banners attached to the shield This is the first I've heard of this tag. I don't recall it being discussed when we were

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Chris Lawrence lordsu...@gmail.com wrote: After more thought, in the general case, deprecating modifier and just using network to denote variations using the established : separator convention is probably sanest. Well, that kind of breaks the whole network

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-05 Thread Phil! Gold
* Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org [2012-04-04 14:01 -0700]: OK, I'll bite. How is putting banners in the network tag preferential? why not something like... network=US:TX:FM modifier=Business network=US:US modifier=Business is_in=Maryland Each of the potential tagging schemes had

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-05 Thread Nathan Edgars II
I think it's clear from this discussion that we *don't* have any consensus on how best to tag relations for bannered routes. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-05 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: I think it's clear from this discussion that we *don't* have any consensus on how best to tag relations for bannered routes. ... yet. Hence why it's important to have the discussion. After more thought, in the general

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-04 Thread Craig Hinners
Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com: It seems that many people see the network tag as not representing a network but a shield design. Does this sound accurate? No, because, where shield designs differ by agency for the same logical network classification, the network tag does not change,

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 4/4/2012 12:14 PM, Craig Hinners wrote: Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com: It seems that many people see the network tag as not representing a network but a shield design. Does this sound accurate? No, because, where shield designs differ by agency for the same logical network

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-04 Thread John F. Eldredge
Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/4/2012 12:14 PM, Craig Hinners wrote: Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com: It seems that many people see the network tag as not representing a network but a shield design. Does this sound accurate? No, because, where shield designs differ

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-04 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/4/2012 12:14 PM, Craig Hinners wrote: Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com: It seems that many people see the network tag as not representing a network but a shield design. Does this sound accurate? No,

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 4/4/2012 1:05 PM, Richard Weait wrote: By analogy, you could map a business by placing a node: amenity=fuel. Or by tracing a building=yes, amenity=fuel. Same thing: you want a generic lozenge shield? ref=123 You want a right, clustered shield? network=US:US:Business:MD, ref=123 And you'd

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-04 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: And you'd specify the type of fuel using a different tag, not amenity=fuel:diesel. name= would be a separate tag, so would fuel. Don't choke on the bones. Enjoy the chicken.

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 4/4/2012 1:38 PM, Richard Weait wrote: On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com wrote: And you'd specify the type of fuel using a different tag, not amenity=fuel:diesel. name= would be a separate tag, so would fuel. Indeed. How this is a valid analogy for

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-04 Thread Phil! Gold
* Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com [2012-04-04 11:54 -0400]: It seems that many people see the network tag as not representing a network but a shield design. Does this sound accurate? That matches my sense of what people have said about the tagging. I've been thinking of them in terms of

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-04 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: * Craig Hinners cr...@hinnerspace.com [2012-04-04 09:14 -0700]: One of many examples: Maryland uses a unique green-on-white shield for US Business routes, but those roads still get tagged as network=US:US:Business, not

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 4/4/2012 2:43 PM, Chris Lawrence wrote: Renderers can fallback to the longest left-anchored substring they understand for weird things they don't understand. Bad idea. Google Maps does something like this and it results in 'bannered' routes appearing without banners.

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-04 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/4/2012 2:43 PM, Chris Lawrence wrote: Renderers can fallback to the longest left-anchored substring they understand for weird things they don't understand. Bad idea. Google Maps does something like this and it

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Chris Lawrence lordsu...@gmail.com wrote: Meh.  I was mostly referring to weird stuff like US:TX:FM:Business or US:US:Business:MD.  To me, US:US:Business:MD falling back on US:US:Business is fine.  Tagwatch processes should catch common cases like