Thanks, robbieonsea!

Thanks, Ævar, that helps.

dygituljunky

Vclaw, perhaps what threw me off was that osm.wiki/Interstate_Highways_Relations states that symbol=* should be to an SVG file.

Rendering route shields would seem to be to be an important long-term feature for multiple countries and multiple regions of the world.

Circeus, when multiple items are placed in the ref=* tag, only the first item in the list is displayed in the text badge over the way. (see osm.org/browse/way/9178198 which has ref = US 78;GA 410;GA 10)

TomH, I haven't been (or don't think I have been) tagging for the renderer. I added the relation for US-78 that I referred Circeus to and, because of the verbage that I referred to in responding to Vclaw, I expected route shields to show up once I added the relation.

JohnSmith, your Aussie shield stylesheet sounds interesting. How does one get to the .png files to preview them?

Am I understanding correctly that mapnik renders from .png files and osmarender renders from .svg files? How can we load a single file, tag a way once, and have the file render in all renderers?

Thanks for the responses, y'all,

dygituljunky

Ah, and another thing:

Where ways extend longer than, say, 4-5 tiles at a given zoom level, the name of the way and the string of shields should repeat so that the name of the road is always a short drag away from view, if not always in view. (Let's say that the name/symbols should repeat every 300 pixels from end of the last iteration).

Here are a couple of examples from Google Maps indicating how I think that the shields should be integrated:

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From Bing Maps:
http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=33.798599~-84.282534&style=r&lvl=17&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

Yahoo Maps does a very nice job of stringing all of the shields together but I wasn't able to figure out how to share a link to their map in a short amount of time.

Basically, I think it should look like this (where () represents a federal shield, [] a state shield, --- the road, and text the name(s) of the road):

--------Lawrenceville-Highway--(29)-(78)-[8]---------

Thanks, lyx. That means that I don't have to make the Kensington Station example a part of one of those two ways.

My bigger question/concern is: does it matter if a single MARTA route has two ways (one for each direction) or should I go through the process of drawing a single representative way for the East-West Line?

It does make it interesting. We have alum that come back and can't find their way around. The moving of roads and changing of access to roads really doesn't help the situation since people tend to expect roads to stay put and buildings to get demolished and replaced.

But at least it keeps it interesting... :-D

Thanks for reviewing things for me...

dygituljunky