On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Nathan Edgars II <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Ian Dees <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Nathan Edgars II <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Val Kartchner <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 15:17 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > >> >> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Val Kartchner <[email protected]> > >> >> wrote: > >> >> > Sorry to disappoint, but the 17x17 example that you gave is quite > >> >> > readable. > >> >> Not nearly as readable as a lone 7. > >> >> > >> >> > I've attached another 17x17 that is also readable. Since > >> >> > readability at 17x17 is demonstrably not an issue, what is your > real > >> >> > objection to route-specific shields? > >> >> Clutter and legibility. > >> > > >> > Nathan, > >> > > >> > So, your problem is not the size of the shields but the route-type > >> > specific shields themselves? > >> > >> It was never the size, but the way the specific shields cram more into > >> the same area. > > > > This happens because all of the renderers currently use ways to determine > > where to place shields. When we switch over to using route relations (and > > the geometry is very long) Mapnik can be much smarter about where and how > > often to place shields. > > I'm not talking about shield placement. I mean that the specific > shield designs themselves are often cluttered. In certain states that > have multiple systems (Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee) it may make > sense to use a simplified version of the shields (although all of > these but Tennessee's primary are already as simple as possible), but > there's no reason except prettiness to prefer the Colorado shield over > a simpler rectangle. > Oh, right. At least in the rendering I'm planning on eventually doing I won't use state/county-specific shields. I'll probably go with the regular white shield and ovals. Too much shield differentiation makes stuff cluttered.
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