Wikipedia talk:Route diagram template/Catalog of pictograms/generic roads

UK among generic?

The section #UK motorway/water should be moved to a separate page, as it is not, as stated, generic, but UK-specific. Tuvalkin (talk) 06:45, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

I put them here, as they certainly don't belong on any of the rail pages, and I didn't feel that there were enough of them to warrant a page on their own. Perhaps it's time to start a second roads page with country-specific icons (including all of the "red" ones)? Useddenim (talk) 11:40, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Maybe so, or else drop the "generic" epithet and put all roads in the same page. But it will probably grow in such a way that a split has to be made and it will be generic vs. country-specific again. Tuvalkin (talk) 18:26, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Level crossings

Can someone add the Level crossing icons ( (SKRZ-G2BUE),  (dSKRZ-G1BUE) and  (dSKRZ-GDBUE)) to the road/rail section please? It would appear that we need a 4-lane level crossing icon created, and all four then need to be turned 90° so the the road is vertical. Mjroots (talk) 09:10, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

(BUE ※ RP4q), (BUEq ※ RP2), (BUEq ※ RP4). It's impossible to rotate  (dSKRZ-G1BUE) and similar because the width of the BUE symbol is greater than the width of a half-width icon, and  (BUE) and  (STR+lBUEq) are different things. YLSS (talk) 10:17, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

So, how do we cope with a level crossing when a road is vertical then, without resorting to the use of overlays? Fortunately the issue didn't arise with the A26 road diagram, but it may well arise elsewhere. Note that the Wealden Line is not a level crossing, the Uckfield bypass was built after the line between Uckfield and Lewes closed. Mjroots (talk) 10:52, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

What's the problem with overlays? They're our everything. 12:57, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Icon Nomenclature (in)Consistency?

I am wondering if the icon rows vROOT- and v-ROOT- of the Basic table should be better identified as ROOT-R and ROOT-L respectively?

The v prefix is already defined by the column heading vRP2 and the actual icons displayed in the rows under the columns RD1, RP1 and RP2 (at vROOT- and v-ROOT- rows) are anything but "parallel" ways (roads/railways) as would be implied by the use of the v or v- prefix. Cheers! MelioraCogito (talk) 22:47, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

These debates are held mostly on Commons. -L and -R are already in use for "half" of icons that continue on the next icon. I'm not a fant of the v-ROOT system, but it's derived from a well-established one in rail icons for halves of vROOT icons. Circéus (talk) 20:03, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the re-direct to the discussion over on the Commons. I'll review the discussions on the topic there. Cheers! MelioraCogito (talk) 00:09, 27 May 2015 (UTC)