Re: [Talk-us] Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-05 Thread Phil! Gold
* Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com [2012-04-04 22:26 -0400]: On 4/4/2012 10:23 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: There seems to be a problem here with US 17-92: http://elrond.aperiodic.net/shields/?zoom=12lat=28.96029lon=-81.31906layers=B0 Change over to sign style and a bunch of shields appear.

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-05 Thread Phil! Gold
* Minh Nguyen m...@1ec5.org [2012-04-04 11:54 -0700]: More requests: in addition to its circular-shield state highway system, Kentucky also has an ad-hoc parkway network. [1] At least some of them are tagged `network=US:KY:Parkway` with a shield URL in `symbol`. The Kentucky Parkways are on

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-05 Thread Phil! Gold
* Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org [2012-04-04 14:01 -0700]: OK, I'll bite. How is putting banners in the network tag preferential? why not something like... network=US:TX:FM modifier=Business network=US:US modifier=Business is_in=Maryland Each of the potential tagging schemes had

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-05 Thread Phil! Gold
* Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com [2012-04-05 08:14 -0400]: * Minh Nguyen m...@1ec5.org [2012-04-04 11:54 -0700]: Looks like the Indiana Toll Road has no relation yet. That's fine. We don't have a shield for it yet either. :) Ah. And that's because my visit to Wikipedia left me unsure what

[Talk-us] Report about maps based on OSM

2012-04-05 Thread Werner Poppele
Hello everybody, there is a report at http://www.spiegel.de/ about OSM based maps. Report is in german. WernerP URL of report http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,825561,00.html ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Report about maps based on OSM

2012-04-05 Thread Martijn van Exel
Thanks for the link, the author seems pretty well-informed on OSM and surrounding ecosystem. I like the emphasis on OSM as a data source and not primarily a source of maps, something that a lot of people do not seem to buy into yet. (I am thinking about some of the commentary around foursquare's

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-05 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 4/5/2012 8:14 AM, Phil! Gold wrote: New York's parkways have a similar problem with legibility. One of my plans for dealing with them is to use larger shield images at high zoom levels. The Long Island parkways are nice and legible: http://alpsroads.net/roads/ny/ocean/e3.jpg Most other

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-05 Thread Nathan Edgars II
I think it's clear from this discussion that we *don't* have any consensus on how best to tag relations for bannered routes. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Network tag Re: Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-05 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: I think it's clear from this discussion that we *don't* have any consensus on how best to tag relations for bannered routes. ... yet. Hence why it's important to have the discussion. After more thought, in the general

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Addition of building footprints in selected U.S. and Canadian cities

2012-04-05 Thread William Morris
Howdy folks, Thank you all for your thoughts. I am now aware that it's a complicated thing to Add data in bulk to a crowdsourced database. Users have eloquently argued both for and against the import of the building footprints I'm working on, and I find it boils down to a pair of

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-05 Thread James Mast
I just fixed the ref tag on all of the I-26 relations (I 26 26), so, those should render correctly the next time any section of that route gets re-rendered. -- James ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-05 Thread Minh Nguyen
Ngày 2012-04-05 5:46 AM, Phil! Gold viết: * Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com [2012-04-05 08:14 -0400]: * Minh Nguyen m...@1ec5.org [2012-04-04 11:54 -0700]: Looks like the Indiana Toll Road has no relation yet. That's fine. We don't have a shield for it yet either. :) Ah. And that's because

Re: [Talk-us] Highway Shield Rendering

2012-04-05 Thread Minh Nguyen
Ngày 2012-04-05 5:14 AM, Phil! Gold viết: * Minh Nguyen m...@1ec5.org [2012-04-04 11:54 -0700]: More requests: in addition to its circular-shield state highway system, Kentucky also has an ad-hoc parkway network. [1] At least some of them are tagged `network=US:KY:Parkway` with a shield URL in