Commons talk:Licensing/U.S. road shields

Getting this nailed down and agreed to seems a good thing to me. What, though, is meant by "the following text was written bound by consensus:" ?? That phrasing confused me a bit. ++Lar: t/c 13:04, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

We discussed this at the VP. Feel free to change or remove it as you see fit. (→O - RLY?) 17:12, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Possible conflict...

Hey there all. I have noticed a possible conflict with the Texas toll signs. The following link to the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority [1] shows the different toll routes, now and future, around Austin. Note on the toll road map that the signs for the true state routes (45 and 130) are different than the signs for other routes (especially 183A). My concern is that the routes for Toll 71, 183, 183A, and 290 may not be considered Texas state routes (183A doesn't have a TXDOT highway designation that I can find), instead being owned by private ventures with privately made signs, even though the signs are of similar design to the official Texas signs. 25or6to4 19:37, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Texas State Highway Toll Road shields are in the public domain because they are in the MUTCD as sign M90. (→O - RLY?) 19:45, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Was just confused as to how they would be classified. Wasn't sure if they would be a Texas toll road or a CTRMA toll road.25or6to4

State MUTCD Supplement PD Template?

Has there been any consensus as to whether or not there should be a PD MUTCD State Supplement template similar to the MUTCD template? I would imagine such a template would find heavy use--all those state route shields, after all.--WhosAsking 13:32, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

The MUTCD template is fine as it is since State Supplements have to comply and be consistent with the federal MUTCD anyway. The state route sign is almost always M1-5, so it's not such a big deal to create such a template. In fact, we can't really change the current licensing on the shields already uploaded since licenses are non-revocable. —O (说 • 喝) 21:27, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

I was only referring to those shields holding generic PD templates (copyrighted-but-free stuff like user:SPUI's shields, of course, would be left alone) or perhaps the PD-Ineligible or PD-Pre1978 tags. State MUTCD shields with only generic PD licenses could probably be elaborated or reclassified as PD-MUTCD, couldn't they? So could any shield explicitly published in a state MUTCD supplement (ie. the New York Thruway shield, which is in the NY MUTCD supplement)--WhosAsking 12:28, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

We've started creating the various state-specific templates to simplify things at Commons:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Licensing. Imzadi 1979 → 01:02, 24 November 2013 (UTC)