Re: [talk-au] People's views on naming on and off ramps.
On 28/2/22 13:40, Andrew Harvey wrote: Something like "Mickleham Road Offramp" sounds like a description to me rather than a name. Unless the ramp has a special name just for the ramp that is different to either road, then I think we should leave off the name, and as you suggest use the existing destination tag and/or destination_sign relation. We have https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dmotorway_junction to indicate any exit number. I've never seen "X Road Offramp" actually signposted, is usually just a destination sign. +1 Edit the name=* tag to description=* as a first move? On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 at 12:15, Andrew Davidson wrote: It appears that people like to make up names for on and off ramps. By made up I mean the "names" don't appear on other maps nor are they signed. Normally I just don't pay attention to them but we have a note: https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/3064262 asking what "name" should be on an off-ramp and I don't know what the answer is. Do people have a view on how these should be mapped? Are they something we should be using the destination tagging for rather than using names? Could we come up with some words to go in the guidelines? ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] People's views on naming on and off ramps.
Something like "Mickleham Road Offramp" sounds like a description to me rather than a name. Unless the ramp has a special name just for the ramp that is different to either road, then I think we should leave off the name, and as you suggest use the existing destination tag and/or destination_sign relation. We have https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dmotorway_junction to indicate any exit number. I've never seen "X Road Offramp" actually signposted, is usually just a destination sign. On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 at 12:15, Andrew Davidson wrote: > It appears that people like to make up names for on and off ramps. By > made up I mean the "names" don't appear on other maps nor are they > signed. Normally I just don't pay attention to them but we have a note: > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/3064262 > > asking what "name" should be on an off-ramp and I don't know what the > answer is. > > Do people have a view on how these should be mapped? Are they something > we should be using the destination tagging for rather than using names? > Could we come up with some words to go in the guidelines? > > ___ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] People's views on naming on and off ramps.
Yeah I see this a lot, too. I think the global tagging standards for motorway_junction and motorway_link would suffice for the Aussie context https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dmotorway_link Ie a name tag for the motorway_junction *only* if the junction or interchange is named. No name tag necessary for motorway_link. Destination tag and lane tagging goes really well here. On Mon, 28 Feb 2022, 12:15 Andrew Davidson, wrote: > It appears that people like to make up names for on and off ramps. By > made up I mean the "names" don't appear on other maps nor are they > signed. Normally I just don't pay attention to them but we have a note: > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/3064262 > > asking what "name" should be on an off-ramp and I don't know what the > answer is. > > Do people have a view on how these should be mapped? Are they something > we should be using the destination tagging for rather than using names? > Could we come up with some words to go in the guidelines? > > ___ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
[talk-au] People's views on naming on and off ramps.
It appears that people like to make up names for on and off ramps. By made up I mean the "names" don't appear on other maps nor are they signed. Normally I just don't pay attention to them but we have a note: https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/3064262 asking what "name" should be on an off-ramp and I don't know what the answer is. Do people have a view on how these should be mapped? Are they something we should be using the destination tagging for rather than using names? Could we come up with some words to go in the guidelines? ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
