[Tagging] Tag destination vs. relation destination_sign

[Marc Gemis]

I've asked this question several months ago on the help-website [1]. When
should I use destination and when the relation? Until now I did not get any
answer. Only recently I noticed the sentence you are referring to. From
then on, I followed this advice.

So I'm interested to learn which is the preferred way of mapping. I didn't
add too many destinations yet, and can easily remap what I did so far.


regards

m



[1]
https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/35719/mapping-destination-on-a-primary-road

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Martin Vonwald <imagic.osm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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