> How does a UK printed map of France look like? It probably depends on the publisher. I have to hand a 2001 Europe Road Atlas, printed in the UK by Collins. This doesn't distinguish between primary and trunk roads in the UK (all are red) and Motorways are green with two narrow yellow lines down them. This scheme is used throughout the atlas (so in France the A28 shows as per a UK motorway; the A16 has a solid yellow line down the middle to indicate it is a toll motorway rather than just a motorway). In Germany I can't quite work out the numbering system, but roads labelled such as 61 near Mannheim are shown as motorway colours.
In a similar way to any publisher can choose their own colour scheme for a road atlas, anyone who renders the OSM data can choose their own colour scheme. The colours aren't defined in the database as far as I know. It makes sense to use a consistent scheme across the whole map (to my mind), although different people may prefer different consistent schemes. Ed _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
