[Talk-us] Common names of highways do not match road signs.

[Shawn K. Quinn]

On Sun, 2016-07-10 at 12:07 -0400, Kevin Morgan wrote:
> Here is an idea. An additional tag is added called signage. The tag
> use the following format  name;ref;text. Each item is added to the tag
> if the information is in clued on road signs. The tag has the
> following sub tags color, icon, description, direction and text. The
> text sub tag is used to add additional text that is not a part of the
> name or ref. For example the city a road way leads to often include on
> a road sign. Description is for descriptive information that needs to
> be interpreted by a person rather map generation software. Direction
> is north,south, east,west. 

I would prefer signed:name, signed:ref, signed:icon, signed:destination,
signed:text. This is much more flexible than a tag that has three
components that must be supplied in order.

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Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at rushpost.com>