On 10 Nov 2015, at 8:51 pm, Leith Bade <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alex, > > That was what I originally going to implement. > > However we will need to keep a list of individual routes for QLD NT and WA > since there is no way to separate national and state routes in those states > to give white or blue shield respectively. > > The engineers pushed back against this as we much prefer leveraging OSMs rich > data model to do this sort of thing automatically. > > To understand the reason, say a state one day changes the designation. If we > hard code the list of routes some one has to remember to go and update the > list. If we just rely on OSM tags then this will be picked up automatically > when a local user updates the ways > Many highway routes include a network tag, e.g. a state route would have network=S, ref=xx - would using the network tag work to get the correct shield?
Mark P.
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