Shields are supposed to start rendering at zoom 10, but they're not....
> Yes, 12, 13 and up to 14 work, but 15 and above just display pink tiles.
It depends on where you are looking. If you're getting a lot of pink
Good explanations, thank you.
I'm deliberately leaving county routes for a second phase and focusing on
state routes for the moment. (New Jersey is an exception, but it was an
experiment and I don't actually believe we're using the proper shields for
all of its counties.)
Starting with a "more difficult" example like New Jersey is smart, as
other, less complicated states just inherit already-complex rules and
"simply work."
> And oddly, in the San Diego area, "CA 209" and "CA 75" (Point Loma
and Coronado, respectively) don't render with your newer shields,
but the old style Mapnik shields.
It looks like there aren't route relations for those routes yet, so the
rendering falls back to the old shield style for them.
Which makes a "mapnik/standard vs. aperiodic.shields" comparison very
direct, now that we know this. Knowing so will allow edits to move
towards the "more correct" method so your render rules work.
> Also, there are some toll ways in Orange County (California, e.g. CA
73, CA 241) which don't render specifically as toll, but as there is
no distinct shield in California to distinguish toll roads, I'm not
sure this is a defect in your algorithm or renderings -- the regular
state route shield is displayed, apparently correctly.
Do toll roads get any difference in signage, like a banner above or below
the shield? If so, then we just need to make images that match and get
routes that identify them. (Right now that would probably be with a
network of US:CA:Toll, but see NE2's and my emails about Florida toll
roads.)
There is no specific shield in California which specifies a toll road
(to the best of my knowledge). On legally-defined Interstates which
are toll (like I-80/I-90 sections of the Ohio Turnpike) I have seen
SOME (printed, non-OSM) maps shield these not blue, but a
light-medium green, though the shields on the road itself remain the
standard red-white-blue for Interstates. I have also seen that
light-medium green color on printed, non-OSM maps for the California
highways which are toll (instead of blue, usually), but that can get
confusing, as frequently Business Routes are printed with
light-medium green shields (and a very-tiny-type "Business" at the
top). In California, the shield (said to be a "miner's spade"
reminiscent of old '49er gold digging) for freeways and state routes,
whether truly a "free way" or a toll road, is dark-medium green in
reality. My point is that some printed, non-OSM maps do make a color
distinction on state routes in California which are toll. They have
to be careful not to confuse these with Business Routes, either by
color or by printing a hard-to-see "Business" distinctly on the
shield.
(Business Routes) might not show up. Based on previous discussions
on this list, we've
chosen to look for the business designation (as well as others) in the
network tag on the route relation. A lot of relations have the route
modifier in the ref tag, though (so they might be network=US:US,
ref=5 Business instead of network=US:US:Business, ref=5), so they don't get
rendered at the moment. (And on top of that, there are slightly different
signs for spur and loop business Interstates, so I ended up looking for
networks like US:I:Business:Loop and US:I:Downtown:Spur even though no
one's actually doing that yet.)
There are some business routes that our rendering understands here:
http://elrond.aperiodic.net/shields/?zoom=12&lat=38.36793&lon=-75.59339&layers=B0
It seems you are going to have a relatively complex parse for
business routes, above and beyond how you get that/those particular
shield/s to render in Maryland. In other words, the bad news is you
still have much work to do. But the good news: even though they are
quite tiny, I actually CAN read "Business" and "Maryland" on those
displayed shields, and even distinguish between them without zooming
out (notwithstanding the shape of the shield itself). Nice job!
SteveA
California
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