[OSM-talk-be] Destination tagging on motorways

[André Pirard]

Marc, Martijn,

The message you are replying to (mine and Ben's) simply concerns giving
a name to a motorway access link so that GPS software taking it can tell
the driver to "turn right onto <name of the motorway link>" like it does
for every other road or street.
This issue is solved.
Your messages relate to different issues and should not be mixed (please
remove the quotes to the first issue as I'm doing here).

André.


On 2014-09-26 10:13, Marc Gemis wrote :
> Hallo Martijn,
>
> I just picked a random exit
> node http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/31247369
>
> it has the following tags:
>
> exit_to=Turnhout, Kasterlee
> highway=motorway_junction
> name=Turnhout-Centrum
> ref=24
>
> Unfortunately, this is not typical for Belgium. I also checked some
> junctions around Antwerp (http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/5bG ) , none of
> them has an "exit_to".  The name and ref are what we use for all our
> exits. They all have a number and a name.
> During my lanes/turn:lanes editing in Flandres, I've encountered a
> handful of cases where there is a destination on the motorway_link
> (the exit).
>
> Furthermore we do not have a lot of "destination" tags, that is why
> Johan proposed to help us, based on some images he took. He would tag
> the destinations as in The Netherlands, so with a destination and
> destination:ref tag. Perhaps even with the destination:symbol extension.
>
> André's example was for an entrance to a motorway, not an exit (if I'm
> not mistaken). I assume we have even less (destination) data there.
>
>
> None of the keys is used really
> much: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/compare/destination/destination:forward/destination:backward/exit_to
> but based on the fact that there is some growing support for
> destination in the US (pushed by you guys I understand), I would
> prefer to use destination.
>
> regards
>
> m
>
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Martijn van Exel <mvexel at gmail.com
> <mailto:mvexel at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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
>

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