<html><head></head><body>So, if you have an intersection of two streets, with one traffic signal facing each direction, each of the four traffic signals will have its own distinct name?<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On September 29, 2014 4:45:33 PM CDT, Lukas Sommer <sommerluk@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div>The case of Japan is different. In Japan, the name belongs to the _traffic signal_, and _not_ to the junction. We need to distinguish this, because they are usually differently rendered (traffic signal names usually with an icon and junction names usually without an icon).<br /><br /></div>But what would we gain when we distinguish between th:junction_area and kr:junction_area - because here we have two values for the same feature.<br /><br /></div>While the tagging has a certain focus on some asian countries, I would prefer to keep this country-independent.<br /></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" /><div>Lukas Sommer</div>
<br /><div class="gmail_quote">2014-09-29 21:37 GMT+00:00 Никита <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:acroq3@gmail.com" target="_blank">acroq3@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><span class=""><div>> Thailand has official signs naming the junctions/intersections. These names are also used when you give directions.<br /></div></span>As Imagic suggested, it not best way to use different tags for close meanings, single tag will be better option:<br />junction=th:junction_area<br />junction=jp:junction_area<br />junction=kr:junction_area<br /><br /></div>This will allow both simple processing and custom rendering for each case.<br /></div>
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