I'm talking about people adding network=us_ny_ny_co I'm not talking about things like network=NH, ref=1 or ref=M5
As for how it might render Wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Custom_Highway_Shields On 06/01/2010, Alex Mauer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/05/2010 03:45 PM, Matthias Julius wrote: >> Alex Mauer <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> On 01/05/2010 01:32 PM, John Smith wrote: >>>> Currently there is discussion on using relations to group segments of >>>> a highway occurring: >>>> >>>> http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2599 >>> >>> In that ticket, you wrote: “we think administrative polygons should be >>> used for custom highway shields, instead of trying to tell the rendering >>> software explicitly which shield to use” >>> >>> How might this work? Presumably there’s some idea of linking >>> primary/secondary/tertiary each with an administrative level, using that >>> to determine which of the administrative polygons applies to the route >>> in question, and then deciding from there which shield to use. Do I >>> have it right? >> >> This could be derived from the ref tag and administrative boundary. >> "A 2" should get a different shield in Germany than in the UK. Same >> goes for "M 5" in Michigan or UK. > > That seems like a sensible thing to do, but as far as I can tell, John > considers that to be “trying to tell the rendering software explicitly > which shield to use.” (The process you describe is roughly the plan for > the US as far as I know, and thus must not be what he’s talking about) > Hence the request for clarification. > > -Alex Mauer “hawke” > > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
