On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:06:52 -0400, Phil! Gold wrote: > >> * Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> >> [2010-07-21 00:19 -0700]: >>> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:15:18 -0400, Phil! Gold wrote: >>> > I what way does OpenCycleMap get this right? As far as I can tell, >>> > it doesn't render road shields at all. >>> >>> No, but it does render route relations. >> >> It's the shields I want, and they're harder than just rendering >> relations at all, because the information I need is split between the >> regular roads and the route relations. The relations have the data for >> the shields, but the roads have the highway= tag that indicates when the >> shields need to be rendered. I'd also prefer to be able to say "if this >> road has a ref=, but is not a member of a route relation, render the >> ref=", but that's a giant pain to do. > > Perhaps Richard could shed some more light on this, but relations are > pretty much going to be necessary to properly render route shields given > the huge variety in highway networks in North America and the world.
Let's do a "shields" BoF at Atlanta next weekend. I have some ideas that make shields much easier and even solve shield concurrency. I'll see the the SotM-US organizers will put it on the program. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us