I've asked this question several months ago on the help-website [1]. When should I use destination and when the relation? Until now I did not get any answer. Only recently I noticed the sentence you are referring to. From then on, I followed this advice.
So I'm interested to learn which is the preferred way of mapping. I didn't add too many destinations yet, and can easily remap what I did so far. regards m [1] https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/35719/mapping-destination-on-a-primary-road On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Martin Vonwald <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > Currently it reads in the section "When to use" on the wiki page of the > key destination [1]: > "Attention: Do not use them for mapping at highway=primary and > highway=secondary (or smaller). In such cases, a destination sign relation > is the recommended way for direction directives. " > > Also above that sentence a list of road types is given on which that key > should be used and only on that road types. > > May I ask who exactly recommended the use of the relation destination_sign > and who decided, that destination may only be used on a few type of roads? > > I suggest to remove the section "When to use" and instead add the > following sentence (or similar): "Instead of they key destination, one > might also use the relation destination_sign, which is able to provide > detailed information about the type and colour(s) of the road sign." > > That's the way I always thought about those two tagging schemes: > destination is the simple variant and destination_sign the complex. I used > both in the past, but only used the key lately. > > Best regards, > Martin > > [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:destination#When_to_use > > P.S: I am aware, that I may simply ignore the wiki, but I don't want to > lose any potential information, because someone thinks one must use > destination_sign on e.g. highway=primary, but considers it as too > complicated. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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