Map shields

[rte66man]

For each state, in general, do maps reflect the official shield?

Did the best I could trying to split this, hopefully you understand the intent. ~S

[mightyace]

Off the top of my head....

Ohio - yes
Pennsylvania - no

Tennessee - half and half
The primary state routes are just plain rectangles without the state outline at the bottom.
But, the secondary state routes are the rounded triangle.

[xonhulu]

Oregon does use the acorn for OR state routes on its map; however, they also use the acorn for all the neighboring states' highways, too.

[rickmastfan67]

West Virginia - yes
Virginia - yes

[NE2]

Doesn't Virginia use rectangles for secondaries on its map?

[rickmastfan67]

Doesn't Virginia use rectangles for secondaries on its map?

They do.

[Quillz]

California does a pretty good job of using the miner's spade.

[hobsini2]

Wisconsin and Illinois both use circles on the maps for state highways.
And neither one uses the correct Interstate shield, Illinois is black with white numbers and Wisconsin is light blue with black numbers.  At least the US Highway shields are correct.

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

Off the top of my head....

Ohio - yes

Now they do, but before the GIS'ation of their maps (2000?) they used circles for state routes on their maps.

[kj3400]

Maryland-yes

[corco]

Washington- no, Wyoming- no, Arizona- yes, Nebraska- yes.

[BigMattFromTexas]

Texas has light blue interstate shields, and the state routes are just circles. The loops are hexagons, and the U.S. shields are right, but they're a pinkish color.
BigMatt

[Bickendan]

Thomas Bros -- yes, for California, Nevada and Arizona. No, for Oregon, Washington, Idaho and British Columbia. Possibly a universal no now as RMN seems to be intent on swapping the Thomas Bros symbology with their own.

[bulldog1979]

MDOT uses diamonds and pentagons in Michigan. The Interstate shields are black with white numbers (but green and white for business loops/spurs) Neighboring states and Ontario get circles.

[roadfro]

The NDOT map has used Nevada outlines for indicating state routes since the last major map redesign in the 1990s, but neighboring state's state routes get ovals.

[cu2010]

NY (map produced by MapWorks for the tourism department)- yes on NY routes, while neighboring states and Canada get circles.

[Michael in Philly]

NY (map produced by MapWorks for the tourism department)- yes on NY routes, while neighboring states and Canada get circles.

All MapWorks titles use the proper New York shield in New York.  Which reminds me - AAA members who care about that sort of thing can get lots of MapWorks titles free.  AAA publishes the Buffalo-Niagara Falls and Finger Lakes, for example, under their own cover, and I got a MapWorks New Haven at one of those AAA offices that lets you help yourself to maps and TourBooks off the shelves.

Now as for Pennsylvania:  I don't know why the PennDOT official map doesn't use the keystone for state routes - it's a perfectly nice, distinctive marker.  But what I really don't know is why, if they're not going to use the keystone, they still bother differentiating Pennsylvania routes (with a rectangle) from neighboring states (circles).

[corco]

The Quebec map is my favorite- detailed Autoroute shields for autoroutes (everything but the Fleur de lis), simplified Quebec shields for provincial routes, interstate shields for US interstates and Ontario 400-series highways, and circle shields for everything else (bordering provincial highways/state routes and US routes).

Also, Washington uses a stylized maple leaf for the Trans Canada in BC, and Arizona uses a simplified Mexico shield for the carreteras federales

[MDOTFanFB]

MDOT uses diamonds and pentagons in Michigan. The Interstate shields are black with white numbers (but green and white for business loops/spurs) Neighboring states and Ontario get circles.

Wasn't always like that, I have an offical MDOT map from 2003 and it shows all of the trunklines as circles in Michigan itself!

[njroadhorse]

New Jersey does! What a concept!

[corco]

New Jersey does! What a concept!

So does Iowa!

[bugo]

I haven't seen a map that wasn't drawn by a road guy that had the meat cleaver on it.  Every commercial and ODOT/OTA map I've seen has either a circle or a diamond.

[Alex]

I haven't seen a map that wasn't drawn by a road guy that had the meat cleaver on it.  Every commercial and ODOT/OTA map I've seen has either a circle or a diamond.

The Harper County, Oklahoma map has them on there:     
http://www.buffalooklahoma.com/Map1.html

[rte66man]

I haven't seen a map that wasn't drawn by a road guy that had the meat cleaver on it.  Every commercial and ODOT/OTA map I've seen has either a circle or a diamond.

KFOR-4 has them on their weather maps. Not sure about the other stations.

rte66man

[Scott5114]

The official DOT map of Oklahoma still uses the circle, which Oklahoma abandoned in 2006. I do have one Oklahoma City atlas that uses the "meat cleaver", which proves it's not really practical for map purposes.