On 28 Feb 2010, at 10:18 , John Smith wrote: > 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)
why duplicate redundant info, requires double care when a roud is up/downgraded. isn't it better this way network=CO network=S or network=county network=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 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
