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

[Satoshi IIDA]

> The name belongs to the junction and not to the traffic_signal, or am I
wrong ?
In Japan, Hokkaido region, there is 4 traffic_signals on 1 junction.
Each traffic_signals and 1 junction has different name.

Indeed it is rare case.
But I think we need Lukas's idea to support it.



2014-09-16 23:38 GMT+09:00 fly <lowflight66 at googlemail.com>:

> Am 16.09.2014 08:54, schrieb Lukas Sommer:
> >
> >
> >     Would it not be more straight forward to use junction=traffic_signal
> in
> >     Japan and only use highway=traffic_signal for the real lights ?
> >
> >
> > 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 ?
>
> cu fly
>
>
>
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