<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="docs-internal-guid-c4e8e471-e079-e2bc-0d99-e39f7cf7542e"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Harald,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">I would like the community to improve the tagging of exit sign information in the US. I created a wiki page that has some of the proposed improvements for the categorization of the exit sign information.  </span><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Exit_Info" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Exit_Info</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Tagging the exit sign information as suggested will improve the route narrative at these highway transition points</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Martijn van Exel has also be advocating for better US exit sign tagging:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/22419" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/22419</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">My suggestion for the off ramp would be:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">destination:ref=I 39 South;I 90 East</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">destination=Janesville;Chicago</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Regards,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Duane</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Harald Kliems <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kliems@gmail.com" target="_blank">kliems@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">I recently captured Mapillary imagery along I-90W between Madison and Wisconsin Dells with the aim of adding destination tags to exits. The example section of the documentation in the wiki [1] only has German signs, which is not that useful. I'm wondering how people handle the highway destinations commonly found on signs. For a somewhat complex example, take this sign: <div><br></div><div><a href="http://mapillary.com/map/im/lE5ZLUjfn-gTLB51nnh9fg" target="_blank">http://mapillary.com/map/im/lE5ZLUjfn-gTLB51nnh9fg</a> <div><br></div><div>(Not that for some reason the Mapillary has an offset for the location of the images; the actual location of the sign is about here: </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=43.10188&mlon=-89.28977#map=18/43.10188/-89.28977" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=43.10188&mlon=-89.28977#map=18/43.10188/-89.28977</a> )</div><div><br></div><div>So for the left part of the highway I tagged </div><div>destination:lanes=I 39 North;I 90 West; I 94 West;Wisconsin Dells|I 94 East;Milwaukee<br></div><div><br></div><div>For the off-ramp: destination=I 39 South;I 90 East;Janesville;Chicago</div><div><br></div><div>Questions:</div><div>- the wiki page seems to imply that the various interstate references shouldn't go into the destination tag. That seems wrong to me, as I'd expect a router to include them ("Take the exit towards I 39 South, ...") and don't see where else they would reasonably go. The wiki (first example) says "Additionally it is possible to set ref=A 2 on the highway=motorway." -- not sure what that means.</div><div>- The ever-recurring abbreviation question: Do I write out "Interstate" or not? Abbreviate north/south...? I have the suspicion in some cases that would lead to exceeding the 255 char limit. If using an abbreviation, we don't use a dash between I and the number, and a blank between the number and direction, right?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your input. In case there is consensus (one can dream!), I'm happy to update the wiki with some more US-specific examples.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div> Harald.</div></font></span></div>
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