Ok I get the message re colours... The question for the US at the moment then is how the define the OSM hierarchy of road classes in a US context. The current tagging rules seem to leap from trunk or motorway directly to tertiary. As a Brit I will stay out of that discussion but will check to ensure that I can understand the resulting rules and that they seem to work.
I do think we should consider retagging all the major routes (motorways or trunk routes - to be advised) that were originally tagged as secondary in the tiger import (but which have motorway-link tagged ramps). Otherwise we are expecting Newbies in an area to immediately start retagging what is there which might be seen as a bit alarming. Regards, Peter > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Robinson (blackadder) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 23 April 2008 09:23 > To: 'David Earl'; 'Peter Miller' > Cc: 'Talk Openstreetmap'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] Highway tagging in the USA > > David Earl wrote: > >Sent: 21 April 2008 8:21 PM > >To: Peter Miller > >Cc: 'Talk Openstreetmap'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Highway tagging in the USA > > > >On 21/04/2008 19:46, Peter Miller wrote: > >> Also. please could someone to a 'trial render' of the area using one or > >> more potential 'USA friendly' colour schemes so we can see what it > would > >> look like. Personally I would be interested in something along these > >lines: > >> > >> Orange and wide: Motoroway/trunk > >> > >> Yellow and wide: Primary > >> > >> Yellow at narrow: secondary > >> > >> Fainted yellow and narrow: tertiary > > > >Curious that you say these are 'USA friendly' colors. I have in front of > >me a Rand-McNally road map of the US, bought and published in the US, > >and the key is as follows: > > Seems we have the same map, although mine was produced in the UK by > Collins > in Association with Rand McNally. But anyway, looking at other Rand > McNally > state maps they all seem to use the same colour scheme that you describe. > > As with most countries you find different colour schemes used by different > map producers. For instance, a couple of other CA/SF maps I have show: > > Hertz (Produced by Colour-Art Inc) uses: > Freeways: Dark Green with black casing > Tolled: Yellow with black casing > Other 4 lane divided highways. Thin red > Everything else: Thin grey > > H.M. Gousha uses: > Freeways: Bluish red with black casing > Tolled: Bluish red with black casing > Other 4 lane divided highways. Orange with black casing > Everything else: Thick black (thin black in urban areas) > > Cheers > > Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
