I think this wiki article covers how exits should be mapped:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Exit_Info

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Harald Kliems <kli...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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/9333f1489732c32c3ffadd58e3068b
>> 7e
>> 5. https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/poornibadrinath/diary/39246
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Manohar Erikipati
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