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On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 14:40 -0500, Ian Dees wrote:<BR>
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On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Mike N <<A HREF="mailto:niceman@att.net">niceman@att.net</A>> wrote:<BR>
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On 3/28/2011 3:19 PM, Ian Dees wrote:<BR>
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In this picture:<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.nomadchallenge.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/likelike-highway-honolulu.jpg">http://www.nomadchallenge.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/likelike-highway-honolulu.jpg</A><BR>
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<<A HREF="http://www.nomadchallenge.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/likelike-highway-honolulu.jpg">http://www.nomadchallenge.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/likelike-highway-honolulu.jpg</A>>What<BR>
is the proposed tag for the highway=motorway_junction node?<BR>
Are we tagging the node with exactly what is on the sign or are we<BR>
looking down the road and coming up with text on our own?<BR>
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Where possible, this will duplicate the sign. The thinking is that sign contents are carefully chosen for maximum clarity to drivers, and to distinguish them from nearby exits. That will not necessarily be the nearest main road the exit leads to. The Wiki would have the exit node as<BR>
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ref=20A<BR>
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exit_to=HI 63 North; Likelike Hwy<BR>
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(Exit Only optional also, I suppose)<BR>
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Ok, that makes sense. I am thinking of the case where a GPS provider or directions provider uses our data and wants to have "Take exit 20A towards HI 63 North Likelike Hwy" on the screen or spoken via TTS.<BR>
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With that in mind I think it's important that the exit_to tag only include verbage on the sign (and not stuff we make up).<BR>
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Just a nitpick: For exit numbers that consist of both a number and a letter, should we insert a space? For example "20A" vs. "20 A".<BR>
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The MUTCD ( <A HREF="http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2009/part2/part2e.htm#section2E31">http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2009/part2/part2e.htm#section2E31</A> ) says<BR>
"Suffix letters shall be used for exit numbering at a multi-exit interchange. The suffix letter shall also be included on the exit number plaque and shall be separated from the exit number by a space having a width of between 1/2 and 3/4 of the height of the suffix letter."<BR>
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Obviously this would depend on how each state agency actually does their signs. In the Likelike Hwy. example there appears to me to be a thin space between the "20" and the "A". Maybe a thin space (U+2009) would work? Though that might be making things more complicated than they need to be.<BR>
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