Well Paul, the fundamental question is: where do you store the information needed for any router, in a node, in a way or in both? In my opinion destination on a way can work very well, please take a look at this example:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:It's_so_funny Cheers, Johan ps no destination relation needed in this example, which makes it more compliant to KISS 2012/11/20 Paul Williams <pjwde...@googlemail.com> > I don't see any reason to deprecate exit_to, it seems to be the simplest > method of mapping a destination sign on a motorway junction or similar > exit. I use exit_to fairly frequently and it has been a documented tag for > a while (although on the motorway junction page rather than it's own page) > and is also used in JOSM presets. > > I feel it is a less ambiguous tag than destination (as a tag on a way) as > it shows the specific point where a destination is signed, unlike > destination tagged on a way. If you use destination as a tag on a way then > I think you'd need to be sure that at every point along that way the > destination(s) given is the same throughout and if not or you didn't know > you'd need to split the way. The Taginfo stats also seem to show that > exit_to is the most popular of the three different ways of mapping > destinations: a destination relation, exit_to on a junction node, or > destination as a tag on a way. > > A destination relation is also a clear way of mapping a destination as the > intersection and both the 'from' and 'to' ways are part of the relation, > and is particularly useful in mapping situations where exit_to wouldn't > work (like at a crossroads) so I do also use this method. It is however > more complex (and so is unlikely to be a method that a new mapper would be > able to use) particularly where there are multiple destinations given on a > sign which requires a relation for each destination. > > Cheers, > Paul Williams > (Paul The Archivist) > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/tagging<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging> >
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