[OSM-talk-be] Destination tagging on motorways

[Ben Laenen]

On Thursday 25 September 2014 07:05:29 Marc Gemis wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 2:08 AM, André Pirard <A.Pirard.Papou at gmail.com>
> 
> wrote:
> > I added destination:ref=E25 on a link and Osmand kept silent while going
> > onto it.
> > I added ref=E25 on the next link and Osmand said "turn right onto E25".
> > 
> > So, I recommend the latter.
> 
> If we agree on this, it is pretty easy to write an Overpass Query to locate
> all those motorway links and add the refs systematically.
> Just let me know if there are any objections to André's proposal, otherwise
> I'll start adding them.

Yeah, I object. Again, it's not the ref of the link, which is usually in the 
form of A.001.123, which we don't map currently. Routers should just become 
smarter and understand the tags like destination:ref. File a bug report over 
there.

Greetings,
Ben