On 01/11/15 07:22, Ed Loach wrote:
>> It very simple, the colours should match the road sign colours: Blue,
> Green, Red!
> 
> Red?

Was waiting for someone to pick that one up, and yes it has been some
time since red was dropped from the legal framework and therefore the
highway code. But the Blue and Green are well documented and just what
traffic is restricted from accessing a motorway drummed into people.

It would be interesting to find out if our French colleagues have any
plans to switch their servers to the new style, but I expect they will
be a lot more considerate! The default style they provide is actually a
better one for the UK than the 'old' style was (wish I'd found it
sooner!), but along with a few useful variations related to France BOTH
are available. So I would anticipate that the new style will simply
become an option there?

Back to the 'Red' question, and the simplification introduced between
Primary and non-Primary routes. A quick search on google produces no
easy answers, and Wikipedia has references to all the legislation, but
many of the links to VIEW the facts no longer work. It's this disregard
for maintaining history that annoys me most.

The bottom line is that 'non-primary' routes are any road used to link
primary routes, and INCLUDES tertiary routes in many rural areas. Apart
from the way the the style suddenly appeared rather than a proper roll
out, my only complaint about the new style is that tertiary routes are
not included in the 'non-primary' grouping. ADD that to the orange
routes and it will fix that particular bug. As for the new style ... no
I don't find it particularly useful at all.

The use of red, orange and yellow to rate the non-primary routes is
really only a matter of following the OS conventions. It is one of the
areas that I have actually adjusted in my own clone of the style and is
a little different on the French version.

p.s. - Anybody still got signs with red backgrounds in their area?

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