On 02/11/15 10:02, Paul Sladen wrote: > On Sun, 1 Nov 2015, Lester Caine wrote: >> On 01/11/15 07:22, Ed Loach wrote: >>>> It very simple, the colours should match the road sign colours: Blue, >>> Green, Red! >>> Red? >> all the legislation, > > ...stems from one document: > > Geneva Convention on Road Signs and Signals > Part I > Annex 1 > Section G > Sub-section I > Paragraph 3 > > "3. Advance direction signs or direction signs relating to motorways > or roads treated as motorways shall bear white symbols or inscriptions > on a blue or green ground." > > > http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/conventn/Conv_road_signs_2006v_EN.pdf > (PDF Page 65).
As with all 'conventions' ... plenty of wriggle room :) And plenty of abstentions such as the US ... >> Anybody still got signs with red backgrounds in their area? > > "2. Informative signs ... the colour red may be used only > exceptionally and must never predominate." The question was more one of exceptions too the rule, or rather any old signs still not been replaced ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb