On Friday 18 April 2008 19:14:22 Tom Hughes wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "Adam Schreiber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Tom Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The problem is that we do not have the technology to render different > > > countries in different ways. I don't believe we even know of an > > > efficient way to do it, so we don't even know what the technology would > > > look like should somebody want to write it. > > > > Shouldn't this be as easy as adding a tag indicating country and > > altering the stylesheet to say highway=motorway country=us => > > color=yellow, highway=motorway country=uk => color=blue? > > Yes, obviously we could make everybody go round and tag the umpty > million objects in the database with a country code. That is a pretty > daft solution though when it should be possible to automate it. > > Of course as soon as we'd done that people would start asking for > the shield shapes to change by state so we'd have to go round and > add state tags and so on...
Well in that case it wouldn't be unfeasible to add is_in=Texas to the highways and in fact, "is_in=" is clearly better than "country=" anyway. But you're right, for country-wide location ionformation, it _should_ be possible to automate. Regards, Mat Williams
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