[Tagging] destination:ref with direction?

[Paul Johnson]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 7:20 AM Skyler Hawthorne <osm at dead10ck.com> wrote:

> Note the last sentence. If the destination:ref must be the same as the ref
> it is going to, then this would be I 787, or else all the ways along the
> entire I 787 route should have their ref tags changed to indicate direction
> as well.
>

Wouldn't it make more sense, and isn't it already more common, for
destination tags to contain the information on the destination signs, which
*do* differentiate direction?  This ends up as an important distinction
particularly at freeway interchanges, where, say, going southbound, the
ramp to westbound is a left exit instead and eastbound is a right exit,
opposite driver expectation.

I feel like this is another example of "the wiki was written by someone
with inadequate information."
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