<div dir="ltr">Hey Martijn,<div><br><div>It looks correct to me - using the destination:street allows users to know if the ramp is branching onto the specified street name vs. heading toward a street name - examples are located here:</div><div><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Exit_Info#Road_name_Example">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Exit_Info#Road_name_Example</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mappers have been using in the US too:<br></div><div><a href="http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/ln4">http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/ln4</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Here is an example way:</div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/11502773#map=19/39.21853/-76.65894">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/11502773#map=19/39.21853/-76.65894</a></div><div><br></div><div>You can see how it is used in the directions:</div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=mapzen_car&route=39.22079%2C-76.65959%3B39.22139%2C-76.65428">https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=mapzen_car&route=39.22079%2C-76.65959%3B39.22139%2C-76.65428</a></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Duane</div><div><br><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">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><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><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.<wbr>eu/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://<wbr>openstreetcam.org/details/<wbr>10767/4194</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.<wbr>org/wiki/Proposed_features/<wbr>Destination_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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