[Talk-us] exit_to vs destination

James Mast rickmastfan67 at hotmail.com
Tue Jul 29 08:58:13 UTC 2014


CC'ing in [Talk-ca] since they (at least in Ontario) 
don't even use the exit_to or destination tags and put everything in the
 'name' tag on 'motorway_junction's.  Thinking it would be a good time 
to see if we can get them on the same page as well as in the US for this.

Also check out the following pages: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/22419 & https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/23369 





-James

> From: martijnv at telenav.com
> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:58:37 -0600
> To: talk-us at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [Talk-us] exit_to vs destination
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:exit_to
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:destination
> 
> While motorway_junction= + exit_to= is much more common here in the US
> than destination= for freeway exit tagging, we seem to be the
> exception globally. Before we embark on adding exit information (as
> mentioned in my earlier note) I want to make sure that exit_to is
> still the preferred way of exit information tagging for the US.
> 
> Personally I dislike exit_to for its limitations (how to tag
> lane-specific destination information?) and poor documentation, but it
> is much easier to tag and BY FAR the more popular way to tag this type
> of information. But given the previous lengthy discussion threads, I
> didn't want to just make the call.
> 
> I don't want to rehash points already made in previous threads, most
> of which are summarized here:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:exit_to but I am open to
> new insights!
> 
> --
> Martijn van Exel
> OSM data specialist
> Telenav
> http://www.osm.org/user/mvexel
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