(sorry if this makes it twice - I tried posting from my other account but got flak from Outlook) Yes that would be really interesting to push forward. To my mind this should be a default tile layer on osm.us (not that we have a slippy map on there today at all – but we should). The layer still works --> http://tile.openstreetmap.us/osmus_shields/preview.html#13/40.7292/-111.8467 (pro tip: shift double click to zoom out…) I don't remember very clearly but I think my main concern is that this operates on a pre-carto Mapnik stylesheet – which would make it difficult to keep in sync with style tweaks to osm.org – and more difficult to maintain in general.
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote: > +1 > > In a conversation with a King County (Washington) employee, we discussed his > project to create tiles from OSM to use as basemaps for King County and > hopefully others. While he doesn't need our tile server, the shields would > really enhance the basemaps. > > > On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Evin Fairchild <evindf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I was just wondering what's been going on with rendering the highway >> shields. I haven't heard anything about it for a while. The last time >> anything was mentioned about this was in late-July when it was announced >> that the tiles were put up on the OSM-US server--and that was only meant to >> be a preview. I know that the code has to be changed to work with the new >> Carto stylesheet, but I didn't expect that to take so long. Sorry if I sound >> impatient, but I've been waiting patiently for the past two months. >> >> Also, I have noticed that the shields for bannered WA State routes (Spur, >> Alternate) are not rendering. I emailed Phil Gold (creator of the awesome >> shield rendering) about this almost a month ago, but he never responded so >> this hasn't been fixed. Anyway, I'd appreciate it if this can get addressed. >> >> Thanks for coming up with the whole highway shield rendering. I really >> appreciate the effort, because the shields are a 154% improvement over the >> current way of displaying highway numbers. I appreciate your efforts on >> getting this whole project completed. Unfortunately I'm not a programmer, >> but if there's anything I can help with, let me know. >> >> All WA State Hwys. are now ready for shields (that is, they all have >> relations), but are the shields ready for display on the slippy map? I hope >> they will be soon. >> >> Thanks, Compdude >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> > > > > -- > Clifford > > OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > -- Martijn van Exel http://oegeo.wordpress.com/ http://openstreetmap.us/ _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
