[OSM-talk-be] Destination tagging on motorways

[Martijn van Exel]

Just FYI - in the U.S. we have been moving from the (deprecated)
exit_to= on the motorway_junction node to tagging the destinations on
the _link ways using destination= and destination:ref=. For the exit
numbers, we keep it simple and use ref= on the motorway_junction node.
This is also what the Scout app supports for the US (even though it
also looks at exit_to= because there is still so many of those left).
Note that this is just for the exits, not for the main roadways.

See also my diary entry at http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/22419

The wiki has a lot of partially contradictory tagging proposals, but I
feel that the combination of destination / destination:ref on the
_link and ref on the motorway_junction node is the simplest convention
that covers all bases.

Did you end up with a 'definitive' way of doing it in Belgium / NL
yet? Have you looked at common practice in surrounding countries?

Thanks / Martijn

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com> wrote:
> No problem. we can use a similar Overpass query to locate the ones without
> destination:ref
>
>
> regards
>
> m
>
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Ben Laenen <benlaenen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
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Martijn van Exel