Hi Manohar: It is my understanding that including destinations in the name is an artifact of people tagging for the renderer (and/or tagging destinations at a time before there was an established tagging scheme). If you search through the talk-ca archives, you should be able to find some discussions on the topic. Harald.
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 7:25 AM Manohar Erikipati <mano...@mapbox.com> wrote: > Hello everyone! > > Turn restriction sprint was met with an amazing response! We loved working > with you all on adding turn-restrictions in Canada. We appreciate the > timely help and suggestions we got which helped us add correct restrictions > and to also maintain the quality of data we were adding on to > OpenStreetMap. We hope that this support will continue further, as we are > embarking on mapping exit numbers and destinations in the same 5 cities of > Canada. > > We have made an easier workflow [1] with tasking manager [2] for adding > exit and destinations. We would like your assistance, participation and > continued involvement in the project. We have captured the details of this > task here [3]. > > After a preliminary look into the already mapped exit numbers and > destinations, we have these observations: > > - We noticed that `destination` (places, cities) and `destination:ref` > (highways) tags are being added to the nodes of exits as `name` tags. > - Few exit nodes have destinations given in the `ref` tag. > - The `destination:street` (towards streets, avenues, boulevard, rue) tags > were not being used. > > To begin with, we have one question: Destinations given in the name tag of > nodes is not usual protocol for adding these tags. We want to make sure > whether it is valid or if we could change these tags to the `destination` > based tags accordingly. For more details, here's the complete breakdown > [4]. To reach out to more audience, we have captured this in a OSM diary > post [5]. We would like to hear from the community about the agreed method > of mapping exit numbers and destinations to take this forward. > > 1. https://gist.github.com/manoharuss/3a1b4f640aaf2c052365fcb1ddb09beb > 2. > http://cfn-tasking-manager-staging-vpc-387856624.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com/project/20 > 3. https://github.com/mapbox/mapping/issues/220 > 4. > https://gist.github.com/poornibadrinath/9333f1489732c32c3ffadd58e3068b7e > 5. https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/poornibadrinath/diary/39246 > > Thank you! > > Cheers, > Manohar Erikipati > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >
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