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<div><br></div><div>On Wed, Dec 16, 2020, at 05:44, Tom Pfeifer wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div>Trying to understand your question, the way in your example is tagged:<br></div><div><br></div><div>destination Troy<br></div><div>destination:ref I 787 North<br></div><div><br></div><div>From the data consumer perspective, such tagging will generate a navigation instruction:<br></div><div>"turn slightly right towards Troy, I 787 North". This would be helpful as long as the driver<br></div><div>is able to recognise it on the local signposting.<br></div><div><br></div><div>What is written on the sign at this junction? If "North" is mentioned there I would be<br></div><div>happy enough with the tagging above.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That is correct, the sign says "I 787 North". However the wiki page for the destination:ref key states:<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div dir="auto">The key <span class="font" style="font-family:menlo, consolas, "courier new", monospace;"><bdi style="white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:destination:ref" class="mw-redirect" title="Key:destination:ref">destination:ref</a></bdi>=*</span> should be used to specify the reference of the roads directly ahead as
indicated on signposts, road markings or similar. The value of this key
should be equal to the value of the key <span class="font" style="font-family:menlo, consolas, "courier new", monospace;"><bdi style="white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ref" title="Key:ref">ref</a></bdi>=*</span> of these roads.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Note the last sentence. If the destination:ref must be the same as the ref it is going to, then this would be I 787, or else all the ways along the entire I 787 route should have their ref tags changed to indicate direction as well.</div>
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