[Tagging] Tag destination vs. relation destination_sign

[Martin Vonwald]

Hi!

Currently it reads in the section "When to use" on the wiki page of the key
destination [1]:
"Attention: Do not use them for mapping at highway=primary and
highway=secondary (or smaller). In such cases, a destination sign relation
is the recommended way for direction directives. "

Also above that sentence a list of road types is given on which that key
should be used and only on that road types.

May I ask who exactly recommended the use of the relation destination_sign
and who decided, that destination may only be used on a few type of roads?

I suggest to remove the section "When to use" and instead add the following
sentence (or similar): "Instead of they key destination, one might also use
the relation destination_sign, which is able to provide detailed
information about the type and colour(s) of the road sign."

That's the way I always thought about those two tagging schemes:
destination is the simple variant and destination_sign the complex. I used
both in the past, but only used the key lately.

Best regards,
Martin

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:destination#When_to_use

P.S: I am aware, that I may simply ignore the wiki, but I don't want to
lose any potential information, because someone thinks one must use
destination_sign on e.g. highway=primary, but considers it as too
complicated.
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