On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Prefix information should not go in OSM. If a renderer wants to display >> > a >> > prefix somehow, then they can go look it up based on other information >> > given >> > in the other tags on the relation. >> >> Then why do the Germans use "A 9" and "B 11" for the first two shields >> on http://ic2.pbase.com/o4/93/329493/1/57062447.MunichOct05531.JPG? > > Because we're not in Europe? The common way to visually specify the > difference between our roads is with shields. Every single nav product I've > interacted with (Google Maps, MapQuest, Bing, Garmin, TomTom, and Google > Navigation to name a few) display the blue/red shields for interstates, > white with black outline shields for US routes, round white circles for > county roads, etc. They don't display the prefix (but they may use them in > routing).
Take a look at Google Maps for Germany; they use the shields. (Mapquest and Bing use prefixes.) _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
