[Talk-us] exit_to vs destination

[Mike N]

On 6/23/2014 7:16 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Mike N <niceman at att.net> wrote:
>>     Most of this could be automatically converted to 'destination=', except
>> that there is a growing dislike of any botlike edits.
>
> We should approach automated edits with a great deal of caution - but
> that's a separate discussion. I think converting exit_to to
> destination would be hard to do anyway because exit_to is added to the
> motorway_junction node, whereas destination is on a way. That could
> get ugly really fast, don't you think?

   I haven't examined the destination tag, but just moving the 
information from the node to the correct attached way would be 
straightforward.    Of course any non-regular cases could be flagged for 
manual work - such as terminating in a Y with an exit_to:left and 
exit_to:right.