[Tagging] Fwd: [Talk-us] Highway Tagging Consensus to Improve OSM (and address some of 41 latitude's concerns)

[Nathan Edgars II]

Forwarding this to the tagging list: should the name tag on a
highway=motorway_junction node be used for the destinations on the
exit sign or only for a special name if the junction has one (like in
Germany I believe all junctions have a one-city name, and many US toll
roads name their interchanges)?

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Mike N. <niceman at att.net> wrote:
>I said:
>> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Mike N. <niceman at att.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>  If we're serious about starting to use exit_to, let's float this on the
>>> talk list and get the JOSM preset changed.  Eventually, all the existing
>>> entries must be converted.   (Hopefully no map data consumer is using the
>>> name= part of the motorway_junction yet)
>>
>> What JOSM preset is this? The highway=motorway_junction one has name
>> and number, which is correct. The only issue is whether what's on the
>> sign is the name, or whether the name is something that doesn't exist
>> at all exits.
>
> That's the preset I was referring to.   If we decide that placing sign
> destinations into exit_to instead of name will be common, the exit_to field
> should be added to the preset dialog to prompt people that something has
> changed.