[talk-au] Junctions (to name or not to name)

[Darrin Smith]

On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:41:38 +1000
Rick Peterson <ausrick at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> Quick question about roundabouts. (junction=roundabout)
> 
> Originally, I didn't name roundabout junctions, but when I validate
> my work in JOSM, it identifies them as 'Unnamed Ways' in the warnings
> section.
> 
> I've tried naming a few using the name of the primary road that
> connects with the junction. The validation warnings disappear,
> however, the rendered work looks messy as the streets AND roundabouts
> get named at close zooms.
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Since SOME roundabouts have individual names (e.g. Britannia Roundabout
here in Adelaide) so the renders are doing the right thing printing
names differently for the roundabout.

The issue is that a normal roundabout which nearly always involves
more than one road really can't be appropriately named and that JOSM's
validator actually is buggy in the sense that it shouldn't be asking
you to name every junction=roundabout.

For a long time I used to put in name:link=<road> to shut it up but
then after a private discussion with jackb way back he helped me realise
that that was not appropriate and that it's really the JOSM validators
fault. I believe there's a bug report in about it somewhere but it's
obviously not on the current coders radars at the moment.

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=b