[talk-au] highway shields: AU

2011-01-03 Thread Richard Weait
Hi All, I've been working on better highway shield rendering in Canada and the US for a while. I added a few Australian shields today. My rendering of shields relies on the network tag as documented http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:route#Road_Routes and http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w

Re: [talk-au] highway shields: AU

2011-01-03 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 15:15:58 -0500 Richard Weait wrote: > If, in your future highway editing, you could update your network tags > to the AU_NH, AU_NR, etc. form, that will mean that Australian shields > will continue to render after I clean up the Dirty Hack(r). ;-) we now put network tags in re

Re: [talk-au] highway shields: AU

2011-01-03 Thread John Smith
On 4 January 2011 06:15, Richard Weait wrote: > To make these work well globally, the network tag should be namespaced > with the country and if needed, the state / province. I've added the > "AU_" prefix to the Australian shields in the wiki link above. If you > have a more thorough discussion

Re: [talk-au] highway shields: AU

2011-01-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:02 PM, John Smith wrote: > On 4 January 2011 06:15, Richard Weait wrote: >> To make these work well globally, the network tag should be namespaced >> with the country and if needed, the state / province.  I've added the >> "AU_" prefix to the Australian shields in the wik

Re: [talk-au] highway shields: AU

2011-01-03 Thread John Smith
On 4 January 2011 12:34, Richard Weait wrote: > Two reasons, so far. We have found highways maintained outside the > border of the expected jurisdiction. So a NY shield is required in > Pennsylvania. But mostly because we have to describe the shield in > the context of a file system, as well, t

Re: [talk-au] highway shields: AU

2011-01-03 Thread John Smith
On 4 January 2011 14:07, John Smith wrote: > Then tag the exception, rather than everything, and in the case of > Australia, which road exactly goes outside the country border? Oh almost forgot, if you have to do this, use an existing tag like addr:state=* ___