Re: “On standard [OpenStreetMap-]carto (and probably most others) highway=milestone doesn't render.”
There is an open issue and some rendering ideas from a year back: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/3605 If anyone wants to help get historic=milestone rendered, they can help design a good rendering or submit a PR on github: it’s an all-volunteer, open-source project. -Joseph On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 9:55 PM Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 13:26, santamariense <imagens...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> > that you should not use the term "milestone" but something like >> > addr:distance or >> > addr:road_marker or whatever, because there are no milestones >> >> addr:road_marker seems to be appropriate > > > Or something with similar meaning. Places that use this addressing system > presumably > have some name for that part of an address. So that if you tell somebody > what road your house > is on and they want to know more precisely, they ask you what your X is. > I doubt they ask you > what your milestone is. Same for forms where there are boxes for road, > town, county (maybe) > post/zip code (maybe), there is presumably a box labelled X, and I doubt > that label is > "milestone." > > Also of consideration is that if somebody uses the query tool of standard > carto to get > the address of a house, will addr:milestone make any sense to them or will > it just > confuse them? > > I did some more digging (which the original poster should have done, if > not at first then at > least after several people suggested "milestone" was inappropriate). What > OSM calls > highway=milestone is a "highway location marker." Which is used in > addresses as a > "linear referencing system." So addr:highway_location or > addr:linear_reference or > addr:road_marker or something similar based upon what people who live in > areas with that > kind of address call that part of the address. > > but highway=milestone, even >> misleading its name can be, is already in use and I think it would be >> better to keep a relation between their names. >> > > On standard carto (and probably most others) highway=milestone doesn't > render. And those > milestones-that-aren't-really-milestones are probably only rarely mapped, > whereas > addresses frequently are mapped. In any case, as people have pointed > out, the highway > location markers either side of the address may not be present. So the > only reason for keeping > a relation between the names is if we're going to map every marker and use > an OSM relation to > bind addresses to markers (which will still fail if there's no marker > present). > > -- > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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