<div dir="ltr">I've also been using Mapbox's document as reference for exit signs and off ramps. I believe it makes a lot more sense to divide the tags into separate known entities instead of adding all of values into a single destination tag.<div><br></div><div>The OSM tags seemed to be well described in their docs:</div><div><br></div><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px 40px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-family:"open sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:initial;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.74902)"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><code class="gmail-highlighter-rouge" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:3px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12px;line-height:20px;font-family:menlo,"bitstream vera sans mono",monaco,consolas,monospace;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0235294);border-radius:3px">destination</code> tag refers to the place that the way exiting from the freeway leads to.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><code class="gmail-highlighter-rouge" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:3px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12px;line-height:20px;font-family:menlo,"bitstream vera sans mono",monaco,consolas,monospace;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0235294);border-radius:3px">destination:ref</code> is the reference of the roads directly ahead.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><code class="gmail-highlighter-rouge" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:3px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12px;line-height:20px;font-family:menlo,"bitstream vera sans mono",monaco,consolas,monospace;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0235294);border-radius:3px">destination:ref:to</code> is to specify the reference of a major highway ahead.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><code class="gmail-highlighter-rouge" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:3px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12px;line-height:20px;font-family:menlo,"bitstream vera sans mono",monaco,consolas,monospace;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0235294);border-radius:3px">destination:street</code> refers to the main street the way exiting from the freeway leads to.</li></ul>I am supportive of the <b>destination:street </b>tag.<div> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><div><i>~~~~~~</i></div><div><i><b>Denis Carriere</b></i></div><div><div><i>GIS Software & Systems Specialist</i></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 8:28 PM, Kevin Farrugia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevinfarrugia@gmail.com" target="_blank">kevinfarrugia@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hey Martijn & everyone else,<div><br></div><div>The bulk of destination:street was added beginning with Mapbox's "Mapping exit numbers and destinations in Canada", which described the methods to use [<a href="https://github.com/mapbox/mapping/issues/220" target="_blank">https://github.com/mapbox/<wbr>mapping/issues/220</a>]  Since then, most of us (me included) in Southern Ontario have just continued that method on the map.  They used to be combined in the destination tag, but they've since been separated out, so this is still actively used.  The documentation I used to better understand it was on the Exit Info page: <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Exit_Info" target="_blank">http://wiki.<wbr>openstreetmap.org/wiki/Exit_<wbr>Info</a></div><div><br></div><div>I could see it having a bit more usefulness for routing purposes, but you're on that side of the equation, not me :)</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="m_267888009604793000gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-Kevin (Kevo)</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 8:00 PM, Martijn van Exel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:m@rtijn.org" target="_blank">m@rtijn.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi all, <div><br></div><div>The Telenav mapping team noticed quite a few destination:street tags on (mostly) motorway_link off-ramps in Canada. This is an undocumented sub-tag of the destination tag so I am curious how it is being used and if there is some sort of consensus that is documented somewhere else than the OSM wiki.</div><div><br></div><div>An Overpass query surfaced 1883 cases, <a href="http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/ln2" target="_blank">http://overpass-turbo.e<wbr>u/s/ln2</a>  </div><div><br></div><div>Looking at a random one, <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/34154734" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.<wbr>org/way/34154734</a> / <a href="http://openstreetcam.org/details/10767/4194" target="_blank">http://open<wbr>streetcam.org/details/10767/<wbr>4194</a> — I think in the US we would just map this as destination=Carman Road;Iriquois and destination:ref=1</div><div><br></div><div>So my question is whether this is some relic of a past practice, or is this actively used and encouraged mapping practice and if so, where should it be documented? (<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Destination_details" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.or<wbr>g/wiki/Proposed_features/Desti<wbr>nation_details</a> seems to be a good candidate.)</div><div><br></div><div>We’re happy to help improve these tags based on OSC / Mapillary data but I wanted to make sure first that this is the way you all want to go.</div><div><br></div><div>Happy mapping,</div><div><br></div><div><div>
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