[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Tagging for complex junctions or traffic signals that are named
fly
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Mon Sep 15 17:34:39 UTC 2014
Hey
Would it not be more straight forward to use junction=traffic_signal in
Japan and only use highway=traffic_signal for the real lights ?
Just my two ct
fly
Am 15.09.2014 19:24, schrieb Lukas Sommer:
> Okay, I’ve tried to work out more in detail idea 4. Please considere
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tagging_for_complex_junctions_or_traffic_signals_that_are_named
> and make comments.
>
> Lukas Sommer
>
> 2014-09-02 4:50 GMT+00:00 Satoshi IIDA <nyampire at gmail.com
> <mailto:nyampire at gmail.com>>:
>
>
> Hello from Japan,
>
> > @Lukas are the names of the traffic signals/junctions actually used in
> > addresses (and in principal would be a suitable value for addr:place in an address)?
> No.
> We realize the name of traffic signal only for routing and
> navigation on local district.
> It is very separated concept from "place" (residence of human kind)
> tag or "addr:*" (postal delivery) tag.
>
> The name of traffic signal is not used as addressing system.
> And if there are very dense traffic signals, occasionally the names
> are like...
> "XZY Conter(Chuo)", "XZY North", "XZY West", or so.
>
> # "XZY" is the name of place or district, like Roppongi or Akihabara.
>
>
> Following maybe off topic...
> Hence, some JP mappers had proposed "place=locality" for old/famous
> name for mountain path crossing.
> e.g. "XZY tsuji (辻, crossing)" or "XZY Touge (峠, peak)".
>
> They may be acceptable, because we realize them as old/famous place
> name.
> But I do not feel that it would not suite for modern traffic_signal
> system.
>
>
>
>
> 2014-08-26 6:34 GMT+09:00 Jean-Marc Liotier <jm at liotier.org
> <mailto:jm at liotier.org>>:
>
> On 08/25/2014 11:09 PM, Lukas Sommer wrote:
>
> In Ivory Coast, you have addresses like “in front of the XYZ
> crossroad” or “from XYZ crossroad 50 m towards the big
> fueling station”. Rather a sort of instructions for getting
> somewhere than an address in the european sense. Obviously
> “from XYZ crossroad 50 m towards the big fueling station”
> will be applied to various houses (usually, when you have
> arrived, you make a phone call to the person that you want
> to meet, and the person comes to the road to search you and
> help you with the last part of the way – I can guarantee you
> that this is very time-consuming ;-)
>
>
> That said, people in quite a few African countries have a postal
> address (PO box in most cases) distinct from the address of
> their residence, so the problem of shoehorning directions in the
> standard address fields of European-designed software is
> side-stepped more often than not.
>
>
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