[Talk-us] US Interstate exit junction exit_to tag

[Alan Mintz]

At 2011-04-08 15:34, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
>On 4/8/2011 6:22 PM, Alan Mintz wrote:
>>At 2011-03-28 12:19, Ian Dees wrote:
>>>In this picture:
>>>http://www.nomadchallenge.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/likelike-highway-honolulu.jpg
>>>
>>>What is the proposed tag for the highway=motorway_junction node?
>>>Are we tagging the node with exactly what is on the sign or are we
>>>looking down the road and coming up with text on our own?
>>
>>
>>Because Likelike Hwy. is the name of HI-63, I would like to tag:
>>
>>ref="20A"
>>exit_to_root="Likelike Highway (HI-63)"
>>exit_to_dir="North"
>
>Better to actually put what's on the sign: exit_to=HI 63 north; Likelike 
>Highway, since a router would then say "take the exit to [whatever, should 
>be Route] 63 north, Likelike Highway".

I disagree. They are not two different values, which is what the semicolon 
is supposed to do when encountered in a value. What's wrong with speaking 
"Likelike Highway <pause> HI-63 <pause> North"?

This conversation could really use some input from other mappers and data 
consumers. Hasn't anyone noticed that the names of many exits on some 
freeways disappeared from the map?

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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>