Key:guidepost

guidepost
Description
To depict what kind of information=guidepost it is
Group: Information
Used on these elements
Useful combination
tourism=information information=guidepost
Status: de facto
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Wikidata
Q16980762

The tag guidepost=* is mostly used in addition to information=guidepost to depict what kind of guidepost it is.

tag	description	example
guide_type=destination location=pole height=full	When this tag isn't set, it is supposed to be a guidepost for all user groups
guidepost=hiking guide_type=intermediary location=pole height=half	For simple guidepost only consisting of a pole with either a trail mark or an arrow (without text or distances)
guidepost=hiking guide_type=destination location=tree	Direction sign witout a pole using a tree as mount point
guide_type=destination	If a guidepost carries information about destination names possibly with distances to those destinations it's a destination type guidepost.
guide_type=intermediary	Another guide type is an intermediary one that merely shows a symbol of the route or an arrow to help stay on a route. These are usually placed between two destination guide posts. Sometimes they are place for affirmation purposes and are not necessarily situated at junctions or way crossings.
guide_type=numbered	In a node network a third type exists and/or may be combined with destination guide posts - the posts are numbered with an unique id and point to other uniquely numbered posts in the same network. The idea is to drive by numbers, i.e. the trip is planned beforehand by jotting down a list of numbers. Consecutively, each numbered guidepost is visited, essentially traveling from the place with the first numbered guidepost to the last.
guide_type=destination;numbered	If a destination type guide posts is combined with a numbered one, then the information written on a directed arrow consists not only of names and distances to the next places in that direction, but also of the unique number the next guidepost in that direction is numbered with.
location=overhead	Quite a few usage, Maybe for guidepost over the road ?

see also

• Proposed features/information
• Proposed features/Guidepost (Abandoned)
• Proposed features/Marked trail (Abandoned)