Talk:List of Utah State Routes

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[edit] Name Change

Propose we change the names of the highways FROM:

• Utah State Highway

TO:

• Utah SR

OR:

• Utah State Routes

The State of Utah Department of Transportation calls them "SR" (for state routes).

http://www.le.state.ut.us/~code/TITLE72/72_04.htm

Thoughts?

WikiDon 23:00, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

I'd say Utah SR (with no dash). That's only because it's what is in the state law. However, I'd much rather prefer Utah State Route. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 03:26, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

How about State Route X (Utah)? The name of the road is State Route X, not Utah State Route X. --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 07:25, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Naming conventions/Numbered highways. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 04:16, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

According to Wikipedia's [manual of style], all articles about state highways in Utah should be titled Utah State Route XXX. We are currently not using this convention. Should we change over to the approved convention, or should we leave our state routes as they are? VBlack 21:12, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New Shield

I've been working on a SVG for the shield of utah. There is a complelete lack of images for utah shields out there, so i've been basically trying to make a high quality shield out of a extremey low quality gif. How is this?

This is only preliminary; but i will try to fix the spacing between the shapes tomorrow. atanamir 11:41, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Looks good :) Admrb♉ltz (T | C) 20:30, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Though might I suggest uploading it to the Wikimedia commons: Admrb♉ltz (T | C) 21:11, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I'll put them onto the commons once it was approved by you guys =P. Do you happen to have a picutr eof the 3 digit shields? Are they the same with a smaller font? atanamir 04:59, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

[1] [2] Admrb♉ltz ( T | I | E ) 05:17, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Hm, is there a difference in the shape between 2D and 3Digit ones? More humps on the beehive? Or is it the same? atanamir 05:28, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Looks like 2 more humps Admrb♉ltz ( T | I | E ) 05:32, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Looks good, though you may want to make the two sides the same (assuming shields are actually symmetrical). Here are some photos that may help: [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] --SPUI (T - C - RFC - Curpsbot problems) 01:45, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Hm, from that it seems that both 2Digit and 3Dgiit shields use the same design? atanamir 02:14, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Probably - the photos Admrboltz posted are from a guide sign, which often use different shields. --SPUI (T - C - RFC - Curpsbot problems) 02:16, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Image:Utah 1.svg vs I tried to even stuff out on the left one. Does it look better? atanamir 03:34, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Image:Utah 256.svg for 3 digit? Testing thumbnail: Image:Utah 256.svg

[edit] Competing entry

Any comments? Which one do you prefer? --SPUI (T - C - RFC - Curpsbot problems) 03:52, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Your's (spui) look more realistic, with that lil white space on the bottom part. Admrb♉ltz ( T | I | E ) 03:56, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Ah, I didnt' see the gashes on the bottom stand thing. I like yours better. They're a lot more symmetrical than mine. haha atanamir 03:57, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

commons:Category:Utah State Route shields - done. Ignore the way some of them look blank - to fix that I'd have to add ?action=purge to the URL of each bad one separately. --SPUI (T - C - RFC - Curpsbot problems) 06:30, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Is there some way that these could be made in to a template? I could see it be done by having a top, left, right and bottom that always remaing the same. The digits are put together from pieces that are a fixed width for each of the three sizes (number of digits). Fillers on the left and right would automatically be applied by the template. What about it? Val42 22:12, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Different digits are different widths, so that wouldn't work. --SPUI (T - C - RFC - Curpsbot problems) 22:17, 15 April 2006 (UTC)