John Smith wrote: > 2009/9/21 Richard Weait <[email protected]>: >> <Rule> >> <Filter>[highway] = 'motorway' and [length] = 8</Filter> >> <MaxScaleDenominator>1000000</MaxScaleDenominator> >> <MinScaleDenominator>100</MinScaleDenominator> >> <ShieldSymbolizer name="ref" face_name="DejaVu Sans Bold" >> size="10" fill="#fff" placement="line" file= >> "%SYMBOLS_DIR%/mot_shield7.png" type="png" width="59" height="17" >> min_distance="30" spacing="750"/> >> </Rule> > > This thread died some time ago, has any progress been made with mapnik > or anything else that would easily allow at least custom shields for > the main routes of a country? > > There is a lot of people that would love to see something more > familiar and less bland show up on map tiles. The majority of > non-OSMers expect maps to look a certain way and even Google is > rendering custom highway shields differently for different countries. > > If we want to win the hearts and minds of non-mappers we need to fill > certain expectations of what a regular map should look like. > Ditto showing custom station symbols (e.g. the London Underground symbol, or a non-copyright version of same). It's much harder to spot a tube stop on the OSM london map than it is on the Google map for this reason.
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