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SSOWorld:
Is it possible to select different colors for the systems that are not numbered highways (like we do with usasf, usaif, usausb, usaib, etc. for USA? Here, the ones suggested to be a different color would be:

usanp (national park routes - say a green hue)
usaush (historic routes)
usatr (Tourist routes - yes I know it's disabled)

Right now, they're all brown, which mishmashes them with the state route system, which makes for a complete cluster of brown lines that aren't so sensible. 

This can be applied, if not already, to other systems elsewhere too.

GitHub issue https://github.com/TravelMapping/Web/issues/813

Jim:
Adding and changing default colors is not hard, but getting some consensus about those changes might be.  I'd be happy to put code on the tmtest or tmdevel versions of the site so people could take a look at some proposed changes without the messy URLs needed to specify color overrides.

I would definitely support usanp and usaush and eventually usatr having colors distinct from what we use for US state highway systems.

michih:

--- Quote from: SSOWorld on February 16, 2025, 08:33:22 am ---Is it possible to select different colors for the systems that are not numbered highways (like we do with usasf, usaif, usausb, usaib, etc. for USA?
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Do you want users to be able to change them back and forth in the frontend, or do you simply want different colors per default?
The latter can be done without coding. We'd just had to agree on colors and change them in systems.csv.

SSOWorld:
If someone [i[wants[/i] the option to it can be considered, but as you hinted, it's extra work and I don't have a preference either way. However, I feel the defaults should be changed.

si404:
As the person who selected brown for all these, I agree.

However it's the state highway systems that should be changing colours as these routes are mostly signed with brown shields and brown signs. Globally, brown is the colour of tourist signs and the US is no different.

When I first suggested it, however, others didn't want to change the state highway colour, despite brown just being a random colour for them.

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