[mkgmap-dev] How to display highway shields with numbers only

Tue Dec 9 20:10:48 GMT 2014

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Hi Mark,

take a look in Table 4.3 some lines above the shields are explained.
There you'll find subst and part. They will help you.

Henning

Am 09.12.2014 um 03:51 schrieb Mark Bradley:
> Hi list members,
> 
> 
> 
> I'm relatively new to mkgmap.  I have a question about displaying
> shields on highways.  Table 4.4 in the Conversion Style Manual
> shows highway shields displaying numbers only, which is what I
> would like to achieve.  In Table 4.3 (the list of substitution
> filters), the description for the highway-symbol filter says that
> the filer "Prepares the value as a highway reference such as 'A21'
> 'I-80' and so on.  A code is added to the front of the string so
> that a highway shield is displayed, spaces are removed and the text
> is truncated so as not to overflow the symbol."  The description
> does not explain (from what I can tell) how to remove the
> alphabetic characters, leaving only the numbers.  I've tried
> several possibilities of the filter without success.  Where I live,
> there's a motorway called Interstate 70 which is labeled "I70" in
> OSM.  I would like to create shields with only the number in the
> shields, similar to the example in Table 4.4.  How do I do this?
> 
> 
> 
> Mark
> 
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