OSM Destination Signs will support Greece

Hello,

Here at GitHub, I have asked @mueschel to add support for visualising Greek road signs in the OSM Destination Signs app.

I am pleased to announce that support for Greek road signs is happening, and is currently a work in progress. Most signs were not rendering correctly when I started this thread, such as this one (compare with this Mapillary view): this is because our road signs have features the app did not support before, but I am hopeful that the developer will be able to iron out the details soon.

Some semi-working examples:

Feedback can be posted at this Github issue thread.

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Ouch, that’s a couple of bugs on a single sign:

ref:to should be next to the symbol, ref:to on the splitting lane is recognized but not rendered, and way too colorful arrows. Actually nothing special in the tags.
I can’t promise a date, but I’ll look into it.

int_ref:to and lang:* are not yet included.

So, int_ref:to is now shown as well and the bug with arrow colors has been fixed.

There’s still a general problem with lanes splitting in several directions and entries with no destination text.
The same sign without splitting lane renders quite well right now.

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Interesting: it is worth noting that the motorway shields have a prefix (Α as in the Greek letter alpha), and the borders of our direction signs are white when the main background is blue, brown and green: I assume the latter is a first for OSM Destination Signs.

Some more bug reports for @mueschel:

  • In this sign, OSM Destination Signs currently cannot detect that the symbols for the service area exit are in a new line.
  • In this sign and this sign, OSM Destination Signs does not assume that the Greek text is yellow when the background is manually set to blue, brown or green: for the record, the Greek text is by default yellow and the English text white, when the background is blue, brown or green.

Thanks in advance. :slightly_smiling_face:

Tthe first one is the same issue with splitting lanes as mentioned above.

The second one: As soon as a background color is given, I can’t use the default text color anymore, because the contrast might make it unreadable. But I’ve set the “light” color default to yellow for Greece.