[Tagging] Named junctions

[Michał Brzozowski]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 11:59 AM, johnw <johnw at mac.com> wrote:

> Google Maps is actually two different sets of data: Google’s and a Japanese
> GIS company, Zenrin. They have basically surveyed all of Japan building by
> building, and everything is drawn area based (because the roads in Japan can
> be such weird shapes and always change width suddenly).

Frankly I don't find their road system to be that different to
necessitate areal representation, I guess it's more of a tradition
thing. But if you don't know, there is area:highway tagging scheme
developed by Marek Kleciak that allows to represent roads as areas, as
an extension to their linear representation. Note this is distinct
from area=yes highways that simply don't have any meaningful axis. If
there are resources available, people of Polish community (marimil)
could help set up a visualization layer for it.

Michał