On Nov 4, 2009, at 11:51, Gert Münzel wrote:
I found that at some of the ways (which have a filled REF-field) the highway-symbol is dropped and only the content of "REF" is shown. some examples(i used r1344). I write "_" instead of "real" spaces just to make it easier to read: if "B" is given the result is "B" "B1" instead results in "~[0x06]B1" (where ~[0x06] represents the highway shield) "_B_" surprisingly ends up in "~[0x06]_B_" "BW" results in "BW" "BW1" results in "BW1" "B_W1" results in "~[0x06]BW1" "BW;1 " results in "~[0x06]BW;1" "BW_1" results in "~[0x06]BW1" (ok, afaik intermediate spaces has to be removed, otherwise only the first part is visible in highway shield)
Try the attached patch. It should resolve these problems. (Of course it could also cause unwanted side-effects.) The patch simply gets rid of the alpha balancing code, removes ALL spaces from the ref, and changes ";" characters to "/" characters. I added the ; to / change, as multiple refs are often thrown together in the one ref and separated by ";" chars, such as "B2;B5". I thought "B2/B5" looks nicer, but this might not be what you want in your "BW; 1" example above. If that's the case, it's easy to remove this too. If the total number of characters in the ref is greater than 8, a shield will still not be added. Cheers