OpenStreetMap
Mapping Destinations Signs on US Motorways
Posted by nammala on 5 May 2016 in English. Last updated on 6 May 2016.The data team at Mapbox has been mapping destinations signs in the US. Based on Mapillary images, Department Of Transportation (DOT) documents, crosscountryroads, and Interstate guides.
We started working on 9 states:
- California
- Florida
- New Jersey
- Maryland + DC
- Pennsylvania
- Washington state
- Colorado
- Texas
- Illinois
We are using checkautopista for adding destination tags like destination,destination:street,destination:ref after verifying from the above sources.
The team worked on this task last month and reviewed 220 highways and added 3,417 tags
- Number of
destinationtags added: 1663 (map) - Number of
destination:reftags added: 1481 (map) - Number of
destination:streettags added: 273 (map)
This is the workflow we followed.
Happy Mapping!
Discussion
Comment from Baloo Uriza on 5 May 2016 at 16:43
On the blue motorway_link could also take on the following tags:
junction:ref=33 destination=Halfmoon Bay;San Mateo;Hayward destination:ref=CA 92
Comment from nammala on 6 May 2016 at 10:29
Thank you Paul Johnson for the valuable feedback. I have added the following tags as per your suggestion.
Happy Mapping!!