We had a discussion about retiring the use of exit_to in favor of destination for motorway / trunk exit tagging in the US a while ago. Since then, a shift has happened and a majority of exits is now mapped with destination instead of exit_to. This is great for navigation applications that rely on detailed signpost information, such as OsmAnd, maps.me and Scout.

With the situation in the U.S. so much improved, a next obvious target for mapping is Canada :) The situation there has been improved already by the community, but also by organized mapping by Mapbox and Telenav. Still, about 1200 exits remain that are tagged with the ‘old’ scheme. With the help of my colleagues at Telenav we put these in a MapRoulette challenge.

Because both OpenStreetView and Mapillary have good coverage in Canada, I think we should be able to update most of these exits to use the new scheme. Let’s give this a go!