Marko Mäkelä (marko.makela@iki.fi) wrote:
A fellow mapper complained that some highways carry a 5-digit ref on the mkgmap-produced map, even though the ref is nowhere to be seen on street signs. OK, mkgmap cannot possibly know that, but I was wondering if we could split this rule in the default style:
highway=* {name '${ref} ${name}' | '${ref}' | '${name}' }
so that we would assign '${ref} ${name}' only to highway=tertiary, and assign either $name or $ref to lesser roads:
highway=tertiary {name '${ref} ${name}' | '${ref}' | '${name}' } highway=* {name '${name}' | '${ref}' }
For example, a railway=platform that is also tagged as highway=footway would continue to carry the platform $ref, provided that the way is not named.
Would anyone object to this change? Does anyone need to see both $name and $ref on highways lesser than tertiary?
Best regards,
Marko Sounds fine to me: in my style I only use ref for down to the secondary classification...these things are, to an extent, region specific (i.e. out here only motorway, trunk and primary/secondary roads have refs, and even then not all of them do, in fact most of them don't).
-- Charlie