On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 04:39 -0500, Joseph Jon Booker wrote: >> On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:54:12 -0500 >> Ian Dees <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Nicholas Vetrovec >> > <[email protected]>wrote: >> > >> > > >> > > Posted on the US Page to help coordinate US Interstate relations. >> > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Interstate_Highways_Relations >> > > >> > >> > Since interstate highways are usually two separate one-way ways, >> > which way (or both?) do we add to the relation? >> >> US routes can also become two separate one-ways when becoming >> express ways or trunk ways, while being a regular two-way street the >> rest of the way, so it probably doesn't make sense to have separate >> directions. Perhaps a proposal can be made for having >> role=North|South|East|West for type=route relations? > > Perhaps direction=North|South|West|East, or cardinal=North|South|West| > East? > >> Also, wouldn't it make sense to have the way a route is displayed as >> the name? For example, network=I,ref=90 would have name="I 90", and >> network=US:IL, ref=58 would have name="IL 58" in the relations. > > I prefer "_" to ":" or ";" in this case as "_" can be used in a filename > without escaping. > > network=us_i_2 # Interstate (2 digit) us_i_3 for 3 digit > network=us_us_2 # US Route us_us_3 for 3 digit > network=us_ny # NY State Route > network=us_ny_county # > > and so on. The network value plugs directly into the shield symbolizer > in mapnik for an easy renderer fix. The shield images can be > network_us_i_3.png to keep them all in order in the directory. > > I've got a demonstration of highway shields working here: > http://weait.com/maps/ Please be gentle on this unsuspecting box and > narrow pipe. > > To make shields work for everybody, I'd like to see > > - "network=" supported in highway ways, relations and super-relations > - further graphics work to refine the highway shield symbols for size / > centering > - wide adoption of the newly supported network tag. > - repair of the many broken ref= tags that read I-190 or even Interstate > 190, etc. > > Blog entry with more details here. > http://weait.com/content/badges-badges
The highway badges you've added look great. Are you working on pushing your changes upstream? Cheers, Adam _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
