[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Tagging for complex junctions or traffic signals that are named

[fly]

Am 16.09.2014 08:54, schrieb Lukas Sommer:
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>     Would it not be more straight forward to use junction=traffic_signal in
>     Japan and only use highway=traffic_signal for the real lights ?
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> Hm, I’m not sure. It could separete clearly the individual traffic
> signals from the traffic signal system/the covered area. The downside
> would be that we introduce a new tag, and if you are a contributer and
> you want just add such a name to OSM, you have to deal with two
> different taggings:
> – highway=traffic_signals + name=* for simple cases (as currently)
> – junction=traffic_signal + name=* for the complex cases.
> Not sure, but it seems to be more complicate?

Simply use junction=traffic_signal as addition to
highway=traffic_signal. In long terms, we will have two separate objects.

The name belongs to the junction and not to the traffic_signal, or am I
wrong ?

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