<div dir="ltr"><div><div>We have a different situation in Japan (normally/mostly the name belongs to the traffic signal system) and a different situation in Korea (the name belongs to the junction). Currently in OSM we use yet highway=traffic_signals for traffic signal names in Japan. And we use yet junction=yes for junction names in Korea. This is yet an established tagging. But it is used currently only on nodes (not an areas) and works well only for simple situations.<br><br></div>The difference between traffic signal names and crossroad names is meaningfull. The rendering is not the same. In openstreetmap-carto we have currently rendered the name together with an icon for nodes with highway=traffic_signals. But we have just the name without any icon for nodes with junction=yes.<br><br></div>The proposal/RFC simply extends the existing and yet established tagging conventions for nodes to be now used also on areas. It extends both (junction=yes and highway=traffic_signals) independently, but guards the difference between both. This was the intention…<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Lukas Sommer</div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-09-16 14:49 GMT+00:00 Satoshi IIDA <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nyampire@gmail.com" target="_blank">nyampire@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span class=""><div><br>> The name belongs to the junction and not to the traffic_signal, or am I wrong ?<br></div></span>In Japan, Hokkaido region, there is 4 traffic_signals on 1 junction. <br></div>Each traffic_signals and 1 junction has different name.<br></div><div><div><div><div><br></div><div>Indeed it is rare case.<br>But I think we need Lukas's idea to support it.<br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-09-16 23:38 GMT+09:00 fly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lowflight66@googlemail.com" target="_blank">lowflight66@googlemail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Am 16.09.2014 08:54, schrieb Lukas Sommer:<br>
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> Would it not be more straight forward to use junction=traffic_signal in<br>
> Japan and only use highway=traffic_signal for the real lights ?<br>
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> Hm, I’m not sure. It could separete clearly the individual traffic<br>
> signals from the traffic signal system/the covered area. The downside<br>
> would be that we introduce a new tag, and if you are a contributer and<br>
> you want just add such a name to OSM, you have to deal with two<br>
> different taggings:<br>
> – highway=traffic_signals + name=* for simple cases (as currently)<br>
> – junction=traffic_signal + name=* for the complex cases.<br>
> Not sure, but it seems to be more complicate?<br>
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</div></div>Simply use junction=traffic_signal as addition to<br>
highway=traffic_signal. In long terms, we will have two separate objects.<br>
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The name belongs to the junction and not to the traffic_signal, or am I<br>
wrong ?<br>
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cu fly<br>
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