John Smith-129 wrote: > > --- On Mon, 17/8/09, BlueMM <bluemm1975-...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> But my point was if they *are* consistent (same shield design), why >> specify state? > > Consistent to what? > > Some states have gone to a alphanumeric system, some use the old NH > shields and those with the alphanumeric system have different shields > between states. > > http://www.routemarkers.com/Oceania/ > That website appears inaccurate. It says the state route marker is no longer used in Vic, but there is a route with that marker a block away from me right now. Also, the M1/7 example appears wrong, AFAIK, the one used in VIC is more like the NSW one, without the outer green border. It has slightly rounded inner green square & an outer white border (also rounded). I don't think the outer green border is worth showing a different shield, just make them all the same.
Maybe it's worth creating a Australian rendering page on the wiki where we can collect all the different route signs. With the addr: specifier, there's no reason why we can't get the Australian/state specific shields into the main OSM map (mapnik). John Smith-129 wrote: > >> I don't know if any are consistent right around Australia, but I suggest >> we >> mention drop the state for know national shields. > > From what I've seen there is no consistency, even when they change to the > alphanumeric system they still differ in the shields they use :) > Is the tiny differences worth it? I don't think so John Smith-129 wrote: > >> I can think of a potentially hundreds of routes which are for eg. C123 >> and called TownA-TownB Road. >> It could be that is far more prevalent that needing the separate ref/name >> relations. Just trying to keep it simple, anyone else got ideas/opinions? > > I've only been talking about highways, not roads, I haven't considered > what to do about roads, same thing as streets I suppose. > That seems contrary to the new changes to the Australian Tagging Guidelines regarding M/A/B/C Alphanumeric routes (ie. this proposal). It seems to me to apply to all road routes. Most of the B&C rural roads I know in Victoria are not highways. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/I%27ve-been-trying-to-fix-the-highway-shields-and-came-across-this....-tp24970890p25021174.html Sent from the OpenStreetMap - Australian Talk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
