As I mentioned earlier, the new address system (house number and street name) will eventually replace the old Japanese style system (block and lot). <div>And I suspect the new names, changed in my area too, are just the city's way of trying to create some sort of "organization". Though I I thought the named streets were more interesting than the new numbered streets.<div>
<br></div><div>I would say go ahead and rename any streets and change any address. Yes, things may be a bit confusing in some areas for a while, but it will eventually get better.</div><div><br></div><div>Be sure to use the correct tagging scheme for the street names.</div>
<div><br></div><div>name = Hangul (English from the sign)</div><div>name:en = English from the sign (do not translate 'gil' or 'ro')<br>
name:ko_rm = official Romanization of Hangul (found on the Wikipedia page, though it may look exactly like the English)</div><div><br></div><div>Keep of the good work and eventually things will work out for the best.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Robert</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Familie Fornoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vineldi@web.de" target="_blank">vineldi@web.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hello everyone,<br>
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recently our old house number sign was removed and replaced with a new one.<br>
Means we got now the third address:<br>
<br>
For postal purposes our friends still using the very old address similar like<br>
"123-45 Doryong-Dong" and everything is delivered properly.<br>
Beside of this address our house and all other houses had a signboard with an address like<br>
"Doryong 6 Gil". Those names I used for tagging under "name:en" and in Hangul letters under "name"<br>
<br>
After the last renaming 3 months ago the street names sound like "Daedock-Daero 678beon-gil". It looks like they link the little streets to the big roads as the "Daedock-Daero" is the big road near to our house.<br>
<br>
Do you have similar experience? How do you handle? I´m wondering how sustainable the new names will be and whether it makes sense to rename all streets.<br>
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Best regards Dieter<br>
<br>
PS: The positive effect of above renaming-action: All the countryroads on the way to my office have now bilinguar sign boards!!! <br>
<br>
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