mtaylorlong
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8 years ago In order to implement route numbers using places data, we would need to change some things in Places, so this may not be feasible in our first release of Park Tiles 3. @jimmyrocks explained that OSM handles route numbers with relations, but this may be difficult to copy since we handle our vector tiles differently. It sounds like the simple approach would be to treat all highways the same (using the Highway preset), and use the ref key to collect route numbers. Then we would render out the ref number as an attribute in our Mapbox tiles called route_number. However, Jim says there may be some shortfalls with this approach, so we need to think about it more as a group.
cc @jakecoolidge, @nateirwin, @cwlawlis802.
OSM highway shields are still showing up inside of park boundaries, and it looks strange where parks haven't yet drawn in the roads. We did this because the OSM data has the necessary attributes to detect highways and most NPS data would need to be modified to sort this out.
For the second beta update of PT3, I'm removing these shields inside park boundaries. I'm going to try to implement our own highway shields for Places data and write up instructions for how to tag roads to take advantage of these shields.