[Tagging] Follow up on destination= and destination:ref=

[Van Exel, Martijn]

Hi Martin, and others,

I need to clarify that for the time being the Skobbler apps use a different engine than the Scout U.S. apps. My work is focused mostly on the Scout U.S. apps for now, and the improvements I am working on will only benefit Scout U.S. for now.

That said, we are working on tighter integration of the products, so that all the work we do on OpenStreetMap benefits all our apps. In the mean time, let me ask the Skobbler team what their usage of destination* is.
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Martijn

From: Martin Vonwald <imagic.osm at gmail.com<mailto:imagic.osm at gmail.com>>
Reply-To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools" <tagging at openstreetmap.org<mailto:tagging at openstreetmap.org>>
Date: Thursday, July 10, 2014 at 8:20 AM
To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools" <tagging at openstreetmap.org<mailto:tagging at openstreetmap.org>>
Subject: Re: [Tagging] Follow up on destination= and destination:ref=

Hi!

2014-07-10 15:43 GMT+02:00 Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org<mailto:m at rtijn.org>>:
Here at Telenav, we have now adopted destination= and destination:ref=
for signpost information.

Great news! I just came back from my holidays where we used Skobbler (I guess you know it ;-) ) for navigation and it was hell. Skobbler desperately needs that kind of information.

Just a brief summary for everyone who's never used the key destination and its sub-keys:
* The key destination=* describes the direction of the highway by using the name of the city the highway is heading to. [1]
* There are some proposed sub-keys to provide further information, e.g. destination:ref to provide the reference of the highway this highway is heading to. [2]
* The JOSM style "Land and road attributes" [3] has rudimentary support for destination, destination:ref, destination:int_ref and destination:country, so you are able to see that kind of information while editing in JOSM.

Best regards,
Martin

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Destination_details
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Destination_details
[3] http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Styles/Lane_and_Road_Attributes




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