[Tagging] How to tag road junction names and traffic signal names?

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2014-07-24 15:24 GMT+02:00 Lukas Sommer <sommerluk at gmail.com>:

> Current situation:
> We have the tags highway=traffic_signals (for traffic signals on road
> junctions or at straight roads – typical for Japan) and junction=yes (for
> road junctions with or without traffic signals – typical for Ivory Coast)
> in use at OSM. Both tags are almost exclusively used on nodes. They can be
> used together with name=*. This works quite well for simple crossroads
> (example:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Junction_yes_example_1.png)
>
> Shortcomings of the current situation:
> It isn’t defined how to tag more complex cases.
>



maybe the junction key can be used more universally (with different
values), we are already using it also with junction=roundabout, only that
it could be disputed that junction=roundabout is covering the whole
junctions (the entries and exits you often have to a roundabout could be
seen as part of the junction for instance). More in-use values can be found
here: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/junction#values
Some of them maybe aren't junctions (what kind of junction is "approach"?),
others are diverging from our standard mantra (no abbreviations), like
"spui" or "ddi" and might merit retagging?

cheers,
Martin
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