[OSM-talk] [Tag] "Ref" in "link"

Stephen Hope slhope at gmail.com
Thu Jun 25 03:26:36 BST 2009


What is your suggested ref for links that are an entrance, not an exit?

And can you give an example of what you mean by an exit ref?  Where I
come from, some exits have numbers, but the number is associated with
the highway ref, so you'd still need that as well.

2009/6/25 Xav <x at nainwak.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> On this page :
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dmotorway_link
> it is implicitly written that the "ref" of a "link" should be the reference of
> the road from which the link depends. For example, a "motorway_link" to/from
> the motorway "A 1" will be referenced as "A 1".
>
> Generally, this schema doesn't work. Indeed, links depends of TWO roads, and
> regularly with two roads of the same type. Examples in France : link between
> the "A 11" and the "A 10" near Paris, or a lot of links between secondary
> roads.
>
> What do you think about referencing the links with the exit reference ? I do not
> know how it works in other countries, but in France, every exit usually has a
> reference.
>




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