Network property is in Germany set to road even a network is available

[rene-mueller]

Network property is in Germany set to road even a network is available. The streets should always have a network so that the streets can be equipped with the national signs, as with mapbox street style.

US:
https://onthegomap.github.io/planetiler-demo/#14.14/43.67017/-92.86298

Germany:
https://onthegomap.github.io/planetiler-demo/#17.01/50.365394/11.785406

Projects like openstreetmap-americana use the route_n tags instead to render highway shields since a road may belong to multiple networks. They publish the highway shield renderer as an npm package too.

Credits to @msbarry

From my point of view, it would make sense to include this as a shield property in transportation_name.

initially posted at: openmaptiles/planetiler-openmaptiles#143

[1ec5]

The example from Germany is part of both an Autobahn and an E road. #1619 would’ve set the network to e-road, but #1648 backed out this change because it broke some clients.

From my point of view, it would make sense to include this as a shield property in transportation_name.

You can think of route_* as shield_*. As of #1620, the format has changed so that there are more properties. This should make it easier for you to pick out segments that are part of a network you’re interested in, even if you don’t intend to render a shield based on it.