[Talk-ca] Revisiting exits with “names” in Ontario and Quebec

[Jarek Piórkowski]

Unfortunately It's a pretty usual OSM problem... editors are at fault
for tagging for the renderer, and osm-carto is arguably at fault for
rendering name=* on exit nodes. [1]

Tagging destination as name of node gets pretty unwieldy with names
like "Kipling Avenue;Islington Avenue;Park Lawn Road", but other than
the ref, name is the only tag that renders, so in it goes...

Personally I agree with not having the destinations in the name, but
it might be a bit of an uphill battle here - be sure it's one you want
to spend your energy on.


[1] I think the initial idea in Europe was that this would be used for
junctions that actually have names like "Denham Interchange" or
"Dreieck Barnim" ("Freeman Interchange" is one I know of in Ontario).
>From my Canadian point of view these would be better on a
locality-style node in the middle of the junction, or a relation
containing the junction nodes, not tagged on several exit nodes. But
that's not really a thing, so here we are.

--Jarek

On Sat, 8 May 2021 at 16:47, James <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think we were following this convention:
>
> https://labs.mapbox.com/mapping/mapping-for-navigation/adding-exit-and-destination-signs/
>
> On Sat., May 8, 2021, 4:34 p.m. Jherome Miguel, <jheromemiguel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I'm new to the list, but I'm reviving an older discussion about dealing with freeway/expressway/parkway/autoroute exits in Ontario and Quebec that use the name=* key to represent destination names that could be tagged on the ramp than on the exit. I've been able to mop some of these out in places such as the 412 and the 418, and part of the 407 in the GTA, the 401 around Windsor, Autoroute 5 around Gatineau, and a short segment of the Conestoga Parkway at Kitchener-Waterloo, but there are thousands of these that remain, whether it be on the 400-series highways, the autoroutes of Quebec, or even Toronto's expressways like the Gardiner or the Allen. Some of my changes reverting those addition have been undone by others. Most of these are added by a user named “BlueJaysFan86”, while some around Gatineau, Montreal, and Quebec City are added by a few others.
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