On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:54 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/9/21 Liz <ed...@billiau.net>: >> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: >>> US is meant for US highway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Highways >>> They uses signs with US printed on it. So the symbol needs the same >>> which is different from US interstates where only a capital I is >>> printed on the shield >> Ok, that would make sense, better than here where we have apparently random >> letter combinations on shields which don't occur on the signs at all >> eg NR NH S >> with a numeral which does appear on the highway marker > > I don't recall seeing I and US on signs in the US, although it might > have been the case where I've been.
Oh, signs are cool. US Routes. (the "US" is invisible on modern signs, but often spoken as "Take US-23 south to Marion Ohio" or "Take Hugh-Ass Twanny-thraaaaay sah-owth tah Marion Ohio.") http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_shield Here is a large collection of Interstate, US Route and some other shields. This hints at the diversity of shields. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_auxiliary_Interstate_Highways As an indication of scope, here is a list of State highways in New York, just one densely populated state of fifty. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_State_Routes_in_New_York Putnam county is one of sixty-two counties in New York state. Here is a list of their county roads. Putnam uses a common "default" county shield. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_county_roads_in_Putnam_County,_New_York Here you can see a few of the non-default county road shields used in some states. Similar defaults and special county road shields are used in Canada as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_highway I've been operating under the presumption that incremental improvements of shield branding across North America would be a good thing. So if initially all county roads show a default county shield until the custom, local county shield is included, I think that is an improvement over the generic UK shield. Thus a tag that supports the beauty of increasingly specific categories leading ultimately to the right shield. Now everything I know about Australian highways I learned from Mel Gibson in _The Road Warrior_ so I have much to learn. What is the shield landscape like in Australia? Relying on polygons for countries / states / counties may encourage both proper ref tagging, and including the right shield graphic. Having the correct polygon is a benefit however we get folks to provide them. Some highways have historic or other cultural weight that earns special signs that may resist selection by polygon. How do polygons help with the special cases like Route 66 and Santa Fe Trail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_Trail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_66 Are there special case shields in Australia that you are able to address with boundary polygons and postgres? Best regards, Richard _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
