On 1 March 2010 04:03, Mike N <nice...@att.net> wrote: > That doesn't help in this case: for example a US highway crosses multiple > states, but is always assigned the same shield. And there is nothing in
This is just a pre-processing problem before going into pgsql for mapnik, or whatever rendering software you use, you extract the way inside the polygon. > standard tagging (that I remember) to distinguish a county from state road - network=CO (county) network=S (state) > I follow the general recommendation that US=primary, state=secondary, most > major county roads=tertiary. Those in other regions may promote the small > roads based on lane count, max speed, etc. In Australia the designations are applied based on a number of factors, like source of funding (partially or wholly federally funded), or the numbering scheme applied by the state (alphanumeric or otherwise). As far as I can tell, every route type in Australia has been documented on this page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Custom_Highway_Shields _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk