{"id":90,"date":"2018-02-15T20:06:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T03:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trafficsign.us\/news\/?p=90"},"modified":"2018-02-15T20:06:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T03:06:44","slug":"midfeb18update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trafficsign.us\/news\/midfeb18update\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-February Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m setting a goal of finishing about 7 signs per day. Note that this entails:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>drawing (or redrawing) the sign in a graphics program<\/li>\n<li>dropping the signs into the page templates<\/li>\n<li>adding the sign code and description, and<\/li>\n<li>generating the PDF and GIF files &#8211; sometimes with an animated GIF.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Plus, there are signs with changeable legends that need an additional step to allow for user-changeable legends in the PDF files.<\/p>\n<p>For example, today I continued work on the R3 series signs, and discovered I&#8217;d missed the new roundabout-specific versions of the R3-8 intersection lane control signs. Not the easiest signs to draw, either &#8211; here&#8217;s an example:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trafficsign.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/R3-8rdbt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-91\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trafficsign.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/R3-8rdbt-284x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.trafficsign.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/R3-8rdbt-284x300.jpg 284w, http:\/\/www.trafficsign.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/R3-8rdbt.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still working my way through. Once the R3s are done, I&#8217;ll update the MUTCD and other links and post the page, and get on to the R4s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m setting a goal of finishing about 7 signs per day. Note that this entails: drawing (or redrawing) the sign in a graphics program dropping the signs into the page templates adding the sign code and description, and generating the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trafficsign.us\/news\/midfeb18update\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficsign.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficsign.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficsign.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficsign.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficsign.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficsign.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficsign.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficsign.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficsign.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficsign.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}