Re: [Talk-us] Unsigned routes (Re: shields and overlaps)

2011-06-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/5/2011 12:22 AM, Richard Welty wrote: however, there are unsigned routes in NY; state maintained routes which have designations but which do not have signage, and some county routes. Three states - Florida, Alabama, and Tennessee - have an unsigned state designation for every segment of U

Re: [Talk-us] Unsigned routes (Re: shields and overlaps)

2011-06-04 Thread Richard Welty
On 6/5/11 12:15 AM, nat...@nwacg.net wrote: In Arkansas, routes are not unsigned or (except in very rare cases) cosigned. The route ends where it meets a route of higher priority and begins again as a new segment elsewhere. Most Arkansas state highways and some US highways fall victim to this

Re: [Talk-us] Unsigned routes (Re: shields and overlaps)

2011-06-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/5/2011 12:15 AM, nat...@nwacg.net wrote: In Arkansas, routes are not unsigned or (except in very rare cases) cosigned. The route ends where it meets a route of higher priority and begins again as a new segment elsewhere. There are a lot of states that do this internally. But most sign th

Re: [Talk-us] Unsigned routes (Re: shields and overlaps)

2011-06-04 Thread nathan
In Arkansas, routes are not unsigned or (except in very rare cases) cosigned. The route ends where it meets a route of higher priority and begins again as a new segment elsewhere. Most Arkansas state highways and some US highways fall victim to this splitting at some point or another. What is a

Re: [Talk-us] shields and overlaps

2011-06-04 Thread James Mast
Then what how how NC is *now* signing the "Future" Interstates? http://www.duke.edu/~rmalme/i73seg10.html & http://www.duke.edu/~rmalme/i73seg4.html#seg5 (search for "Photo of only I-73 sign along segment after its opening in December") Those show the "Future" text in big bold text, but yes, t

Re: [Talk-us] shields and overlaps

2011-06-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/4/2011 9:46 PM, James Mast wrote: Also, are you going to try to add proper "Future" Interstate shields? Currently in Google, they just show a normal Interstate shield. It might give people a proper reason to tag these "posted" Future Interstate correctly instead of without the "Future" tag.

Re: [Talk-us] shields and overlaps

2011-06-04 Thread James Mast
Here's some examples you could test: 2 Interstates - I-77 & I-74: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/16776408 (Note: IMO, I think the refs should be "I 77;I 74" instead since the mileage on this section is I-77's.) 2 Interstates + US Highway - I-73, I-74, & US-220: http://www.openstreetm

[Talk-us] Unsigned routes (Re: shields and overlaps)

2011-06-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/4/2011 7:06 PM, Chris Lawrence wrote: Reminds me, we need to add some notation for unsigned routes in relations (the only approaches I can think of are either to tag it as roles on each member, with things like "unsigned;west" sometimes - which is icky but would work - or having separate rel

Re: [Talk-us] shields and overlaps

2011-06-04 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Richard Weait wrote: > I'm doing a little work on shield rendering for Interstate and US > Route shields, etc. > > Who has a favourite highway overlap?  I'd like a few examples of each > of the following. > - two Interstates overlapping on a way > - three Interstate

Re: [Talk-us] shields and overlaps

2011-06-04 Thread Kristian Zoerhoff
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Richard Weait wrote: > I'm doing a little work on shield rendering for Interstate and US > Route shields, etc. > > Who has a favourite highway overlap?  I'd like a few examples of each > of the following. How about 1 interstate and 2 state routes? http://www.opens

Re: [Talk-us] shields and overlaps

2011-06-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/4/2011 4:51 PM, Richard Weait wrote: I'm doing a little work on shield rendering for Interstate and US Route shields, etc. Who has a favourite highway overlap? I'd like a few examples of each of the following. - two Interstates overlapping on a way I-80/90 across Indiana and Ohio - thre

Re: [Talk-us] shields and overlaps

2011-06-04 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Richard Weait wrote: > I'm doing a little work on shield rendering for Interstate and US > Route shields, etc. > > Who has a favourite highway overlap? I'd like a few examples of each > of the following. > - two Interstates overlapping on a way > - three Interstat

Re: [Talk-us] shields and overlaps

2011-06-04 Thread Richard Weait
Oh why not. How about an overlap of one I, one US and one state-something as well? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] shields and overlaps

2011-06-04 Thread Richard Weait
I'm doing a little work on shield rendering for Interstate and US Route shields, etc. Who has a favourite highway overlap? I'd like a few examples of each of the following. - two Interstates overlapping on a way - three Interstates overlapping on a way - combination of Interstates and US Routes t

Re: [Talk-us] Using OSM for emergency routing?

2011-06-04 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Anthony wrote: > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Ian Dees wrote: >> The point is that even if everyone has all the roads in their jurisdiction >> memorized (and nowadays with consolidation and huge coverage areas that's >> harder to do) and has previously spent t

Re: [Talk-us] Using OSM for emergency routing?

2011-06-04 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > I don't think people want to use this as a "this is your route and you must > follow it". The idea would be that (a) dispatchers and emergency drivers > could use the map and suggested route to give a better estimate on arrival > time to first res