[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

Re: [talk-au] highway shields: AU

2011-01-03 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 15:15:58 -0500 Richard Weait rich...@weait.com 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

Re: [talk-au] highway shields: AU

2011-01-03 Thread John Smith
On 4 January 2011 06:15, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com 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

Re: [talk-au] highway shields: AU

2011-01-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:02 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 January 2011 06:15, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com 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

Re: [talk-au] highway shields: AU

2011-01-03 Thread John Smith
On 4 January 2011 12:34, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com 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

Re: [talk-au] highway shields: AU

2011-01-03 Thread John Smith
On 4 January 2011 14:07, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com 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=*