Highway shields

[kylebarron]

I was reading through the openmaptiles schema and saw that transportation_name had a key named network whose values say whether the motorway belongs to a standard network. (https://openmaptiles.org/schema/#transportation_name)

We could use those values to provide road shields that are more descriptive than a rectangle. This would encompass adding svgs to the sprite for each # of characters of ref

Here are US highway shields
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Diagrams_of_U.S._Highway_shields

CA TransCanada: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TCH-blank.svg#mw-jump-to-license

[pathmapper]

@kylebarron thanks for suggesting, this would be a nice improvement.

We have to make sure that all shields we would use from the links you provided are CC0 and document it (Readme and https://github.com/maputnik/osm-liberty/blob/gh-pages/LICENSE.md).

This would encompass adding svgs to the sprite for each # of characters of ref

A short while ago stretchable icons were introduced in GL JS:

https://blog.mapbox.com/introducing-gl-js-v1-6-0-with-rich-text-labels-96f87830c58f
https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/example/add-image-stretchable/

Didn't try try them until now, maybe they are an alternative?

[kylebarron]

Is CC0 equivalent to public domain?

[boldtrn]

Is CC0 equivalent to public domain?

yes