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

[Jherome Miguel]

I agree. Typical Ontarian exit "names" like “Yonge Street exit”, “Highway
401 exit”, “QEW exit to Hamilton” are not real names but descriptions
composed of the signed destination plus exit. That way, the only thing that
should be tagged on the exit node is the exit number, and the destination
posted on the green or blue signs get tagged as destination=* and all its
extensions on the ramp. There would be exits with real names (usually
interchanges between two highways), but the name are often ceremonial and
is little used. I'm from Alberta, where highway exits are generally
referred to by their signposted exit number, but do Ontarians also use them
or only use “(destination) exit”? What is the Québécois usage again?

Going back again, this "practice" was started last 2017 or 2018 by
BlueJaysFan86 and other users just started following that (so why they
reverted my edits on several areas). It might be worthy clarifying in the
wiki for Canadian tagging guidelines that colloquial references like
"[destination] exit"/"sortie [de] (destination)" are not names but
descriptions, so to help discourage that practice. Cleaning up Ontario and
Quebec exits can be a good MapRoulette project.

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Jarek Piórkowski <jarek at piorkowski.ca>
Date: Mon, May 10, 2021 at 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Revisiting exits with “names” in Ontario and Quebec
To: Jherome Miguel <jheromemiguel at gmail.com>


On Mon, 10 May 2021 at 14:57, Jherome Miguel <jheromemiguel at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> It may not be a tagging for the renderer issue, but it also has something
to do with Ontarians saying “(road name) exit” instead of “exit (number)”
as in Western Canada. Don't know how do Québécois refer to autoroute exits.

May be, but to go back to my example, no one calls it the "Kipling
Avenue Islington Avenue Park Lawn Road exit", and any reasonable
"name" you could create for that exit would in fact be a description
("Kipling collectors exit" or something)

--Jarek
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