[Talk-us] Naming Ramps

[Brett Lord-Castillo]

I will start off by saying that obviously this cannot be used directly in
OSM, since we don't name ramps.
In compiling data for NG911 from multiple sources, a consistent problem we
have had is in the naming of exit and entrance ramps.

These ramps are extremely import: a large number of traffic accidents occur
on them and we must dispatch to exactly the right ramp in a way that can be
quickly identified from information provided by a caller (e.g. exit number
is not helpful if the caller is already on the ramp). But, no one seems to
have a naming convention for ramps (including OSM).

Has anyone come across something resembling a "standard" for ramp naming,
or at least a flexible consistent system? I did look at Waze's naming
pattern, but unfortunately their use of forward slashes in the naming
pattern breaks quite a few dispatching systems.

Related to this, I also wanted to look for some ideas on how to generate
names for the unnamed ramps in an OSM extract.

Thanks!
Brett Lord-Castillo
St Louis County
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