Apollinaris Schoell wrote: > > On 8 Mar 2010, at 10:10 , Richard Welty wrote: > >> On 3/8/10 12:52 PM, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: >>> fully agree we should keep this target in mind. >>> But first we have to resolve a long list of problems first. >>> there shouldn't be any time when the renderer or other data consumers will >>> be left with completely broken data because step2 was done before step1 >>> osm doesn't have any way of enforcing anything we need to be careful to >>> kill the dinosaur too early >>> >>> >>> 1) route relation tagging has to be defined, agreed and accepted widely. >>> currently it's a mess. >>> >> agree on straightening out tagging. the ref tag on a route relation is a >> free-for-all right now, and there >> is not a clear concensus on the network tag either. on the other hand, if >> symbol is there and points at >> an appropriate svg file for a shield (which it generally does) then >> rendering may be straightforward. > > shield rendering is a wish for many for a long time. but so far no one came > up with a practical solution. also there is no consensus if this will ever go > upstream to Mapnik because it will break the unified global rendering on > osm.org But that shouldn't stop anyone to setup a US specific rendering with > shields.
Richard Welte came up with the network naming scheme that should make this possible; it's already in live usage throughout much of Cascadia. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
