Re: [Tagging] custom road ref shields

2014-11-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:11 PM, johnw wrote: > That looks really good. Some graphic designers need to remake the shields > for icon size (bigger lettering, details ignored), but the system of > putting on the roads looks great. amItheOnlyOneHere.png that thinks, in the vast majority of cases,

Re: [Tagging] custom road ref shields

2014-11-28 Thread Richard Welty
On 11/28/14 2:26 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:11 PM, johnw > wrote: That looks really good. Some graphic designers need to remake the shields for icon size (bigger lettering, details ignored), but the system of putting on the roads looks

Re: [Tagging] custom road ref shields

2014-11-28 Thread Clifford Snow
I've been trying to understand the issues that keep us from having Pictural Route Shields. The issue is on github [1] but as best as I can understand, it gets down to how we (US) tag routes. From talking to Paul Norman we need to fix the tagging problems before we can get pictural route shields. T

Re: [Tagging] custom road ref shields

2014-11-28 Thread Paul Johnson
Kind of thought this was settled already, even in the strange cases of states with multiple highway networks (Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, to name three). On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > I've been trying to understand the issues that keep us from having > Pictural Route Shi

Re: [Tagging] custom road ref shields

2014-11-28 Thread Richard Welty
i think this has kind of wandered off topic for tagging, as no new tagging needs to be developed... On 11/28/14 6:39 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: Kind of thought this was settled already, even in the strange cases of states with multiple highway networks (Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, to name three).

Re: [Tagging] Various alt_name values?

2014-11-28 Thread Lukas Sommer
Okay. I’ll try a summary: We have the choise between two systems: – semicolon system – alt_name_1 system (Other versions like alt_name:1 or alt_name1 seem to be not interesting and have very little occurence in the database, probably errors during the HOT imports). Both have its advantages and

Re: [Tagging] custom road ref shields

2014-11-28 Thread johnw
> On Nov 29, 2014, at 4:26 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:11 PM, johnw > wrote: > That looks really good. Some graphic designers need to remake the shields for > icon size (bigger lettering, details ignored), but the system of putting on > the

Re: [Tagging] Various alt_name values?

2014-11-28 Thread Brian Quinion
On 29 Nov 2014 00:26, "Lukas Sommer" wrote: > > Okay. I’ll try a summary: > > We have the choise between two systems: > > – semicolon system > > – alt_name_1 system I added support for alt_name_1 because this kept coming up and people were actively abusing alt_name:1 because it happened to work (