Shields of Ecuador

[1ec5]

Ecuador identifica sus carreteras con dos discos que parecen mucho similares con el escudo de autopistas interestatales de los EE.UU. Las carreteras primarias o arteriales tienen un disco azúl y los secundarias o colectoras tienen un disco verde. En OSM, estas rutas tienen las etiquetas network=EC:national y network=EC:provincial, respectivamente. Los números rutales tienen el prefijo “E”, entonces los números pueden ser más largos que aún el número interestatal más largo.

Ecuador marks its roads with two shields that look strikingly similar to the Interstate Highway shield in the U.S. Primary or arterial highways get a blue shield, while secondary or collector highways get a green shield. In OSM, these routes are tagged network=EC:national and network=EC:provincial, respectively. Route numbers in the shield are prefixed with “E”, so the numbers can get longer than even the longest Interstate route number.

[1ec5]

network=EC:national y network=EC:provincial no es correcto para las carreteras arteriales y colectoras, porque los dos son partes de la red vial estatal. De hecho, la provincia de Guayas tiene sus propias carreteras provinciales con los discos: #457. Estes valores no correctos de network se agregaron como parte de TelenavMapping/Ecuador_mapping_projects#1 (ejemplo).

network=EC:national and network=EC:provincial are incorrect for the arterial and collector highways, because both are part of the state route network. In fact, Guayas province has its own provincial highways with shields: #457. These incorrect network values were added as part of TelenavMapping/Ecuador_mapping_projects#1 (example).

[1ec5]

He pedido en el chat OSM Latinoamericana; un usuario allá he reenviado el mensaje a Telegram de MappingEcuador.

Asked in the OSM Latin America Telegram chat; a user there forwarded the message to MappingEcuador Telegram.

[claysmalley]

A general strike in Ecuador (archive) has been going on for the last couple of weeks, so I imagine most Ecuadorians are quite busy at the moment and this issue may be on hold until the political situation is better.

[fmvaldezg]

I have just come across this issue. There are 2 types of shields that are standardized for the national road network of Ecuador. One is blue for the arterial roads and the other is green for the collector roads. The nomenclature always starts with a capital "E". From west to east and in a north-south direction begin with E5, E15, E25, E35 and E45. From north to south and in east-west direction E10, E20, E30, E40 and E50. All others are variations of these 10. The standard of the shield can be found in this link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f2Adspg5LoIhqOkXEEXdqJIw-mhaZcHw/view. See from page 101 to 103

[claysmalley]

Hi @fmvaldezg! Glad to have more help with route shields.

As it is right now, route=road relations in Ecuador are mapped completely and consistently on OSM, but they're tagged with network=* values that appear to be misnomers (EC:national for arterials, EC:provincial for collectors) applied by corporate contributors without consulting locals. There's enough information in these tags for Americana to display correct shields for arterial and collector routes, but before they can be added, should Ecuador stick with this tagging scheme, or retag them all to something more aligned with official nomenclature?