"Mike N." <nice...@att.net> writes: > The official current Wiki convention for interstate tagging > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Interstate_Highways has the exit > sign information being placed in the name= tag. The > motorway_junction tag > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dmotorway_junction > introduces a new exit_to= tag to record exit sign destinations. > > There was no response to a question on the tagging list as to whether > the name= should contain all exit destinations from the sign. > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2010-October/005207.html > > Some have commented that placing exit sign information in the name > results in a cluttered map because the name renders instead of the > ref. I agree with this. Since I believe the name={signInfo] is a > US-only convention and there are no other strong opinions, we should > look at changing this. If there are no other comments, I'll outline > the steps we'll need to go through to change this.
+1 It clutters the map a lot, and it's not the best way to represent the information on the signs. Good riddance. -- Peter Budny \ Georgia Tech \ CS PhD student \ _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us