On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Craig Hinners <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: Kevin Atkinson <[email protected]> >> If a stretch of road has multiple numbered route, a semi-colon >> should be used to separate them and I believe that the render _will_ >> recognize those. > > In my experience, Mapnik renders the semicolon as-is, rather than > creating a shield/marker for each individual route number. > > But don't exceed a certain quantity of characters, because then it won't > render a shield at all. Do exceed that many characters if necessary or you won't be tagging correctly.
> The limit is different for the various values of > the "highway" tag: it was 6 and 8 characters when I bitched about it > some years back: > > http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/937 > > Anyway...yet another example of how this practice of cramming every last > bit of highway network metadata into the value field of a "ref" tag has > its limitations... It's easy enough to fix in the renderer. If you put semicolons in the name=* tag for a highway=motorway_junction Mapnik now replaces it with a line break; something similar could be done for ref tags. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
