OSM Destination Signs

This is a tool to show information stored in OSM in the form of destination_sign relations or destination tags on ways.

Supported tagging features:

• destination tags, including destination:lang:XX and destination:symbol
• distance and time
• colour:text, colour:back, colour:arrow
• direction of route from geometry of ways and nodes
• additional sources from guidepost node: image, mapillary, website, operator
• ref numbers of ways are taken from destination:ref on relations or ref on ways or ref on hiking routes the way belongs to

Usage

All code is included in the code directory - a Perl script generating the signs, a JavaScript file for control on the users' side and a style file to render the HTML output.

The example directory contains a Leaflet map page with markers for interesting points. It needs an additional library to load data from Overpass (leaflet-layerjson.js) which can be found here: https://github.com/stefanocudini/leaflet-layerJSON and leaflet-permalink.js which can be found here: https://github.com/shramov/leaflet-plugins/

API

A simple API is available to retrieve information from a given sign:

code/generate.pl?nodeid=123456789&namedroutes&fromarrow&format=json

The available arguments are:

• nodeid - required, gives the node of a destination sign to be evaluated (required)
• namedroutes - include the names for names of routes
• fromarrow - take 'from' information into account and add arrows showing the actual direction of arrows on signs
• distunit=(m|km|mi) - convert distance to either meter, kilometer or miles.
• format=json - to get all information in plain JSON only. If not specified, output contains a HTML rendering as well as data.

License

This tool is available under cc-by-sa 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ The code is distributed as-is without any guarantee whatsoever.