On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Andrew Gillespie <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I have noticed that if you look at a map of the whole country is not easy to > see official routes because the current tagging scheme > (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/South_African_Tagging_Guidelines) has > routes tagged with different 'highway=type' tags based on the physical > nature of different sections the road. While this does reflect reality (and > is therefor technically correct), I do think that what people actually want > from maps would be better served by a scheme that shows defined routes first > (e.g. N1, R101, M6 etc.) > > I have written a possible alternate tagging scheme which can be viewed at > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:South_African_Tagging_Guidelines#Proposed_alternate_tagging_scheme > and I would appreciate any comments/disscusion. > > Andrew Gillespie > Andrew on wiki > Little Andrew on OSM
M roads are sometimes highways, but your proposal always has them as highway=secondary? Also your biggest change seems to be that when rendering highways, you won't use a different colour for the highway=trunk sections of a highway=motorway. But couldn't a renderer do this (by tracking ref values independently of highway type) without changes to the map? Damjan _______________________________________________ Talk-ZA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za
