On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Alex Mauer <ha...@hawkesnest.net> wrote:
> On 10/15/2010 09:44 PM, Richard Welty wrote: > >> I don't think we should be storing any prefix as part of the network=* >>> or ref=* tags (thus my suggestion for >>> network=us_route/state_route/county_route or similar). For example the >>> "I-x" denotation shouldn't show up anywhere in our tags. If it's an >>> interstate it should be tagged as such (I suggest network=interstate >>> but I think there's a precedent on the wiki) and the renderer can add >>> the "I-" if it wants to. >>> >>> i agree, it's a rendering prefix for a ref tag value and deserves >> its own, separate tag. >> > > For relations I agree, but for ways this doesn’t work. And as renderers > can only handle ways for now… > > This is a data project, not a renderer project. If the renderers aren't doing the right thing then we need to make them do the right thing. Lars Ahlzen and I have been thinking about ways to get the renderer to show the highway shield and it appears that osm2pgsql creates a geometry for each of the route relations, meaning that highway shields can be rendered "correctly" with a bit of Mapnik stylesheet hacking. > Sans prefices, the highway=motorway where US Highway 10, Wisconsin Highway > 66, and Interstate Highway 39 run together would have ref=10;66;39. Not > very useful for determining which is which. That's what routes are for.
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