[Talk-ko] Road labeling

[Sang B. Han]

Mostly, Road number is assigned to inter-city road in Korea and not to
Intra-city road. The discussions of inter-city and intra-city need to be
made separately.
대부분의 경우, 한국에서 도로 번호는 도시간 도로에만 할당되어 있습니다. 도시내 도로는 도로 번호를 갖지 않습니다. 그러므로 두 가지
논의는 별도로 이루어져야 할 것입니다.


On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Jeffrey Martin <dogshed at gmail.com> wrote:

> Let me try to summarize a few things.
>
> There are two different pieces of information. One is the physical make up
> of the road, and the other is the legal name and designation. From what I've
> read on the list this is somewhat the same thing in the UK, but not in other
> countries. This is particularly true in Korea where they are improving roads
> at a relatively fast pace and a one lane gravel road can become four lane
> paved and still have the a number in a box as it's designator. That was a
> hyperbole but we shouldn't infer anything about the physicality of the road
> from the sign on the signpost except for the motorways.
>
> Having people measuring the road and putting in a lot of fields about lanes
> and shoulder size is kind of tedious. Therefore it makes sense to assign
> names to physical types.
>
> The roads need some kind of code for circle, rectangle, hexagon, octagon,
> and interstate shield, along with a code for motorcycle restriction on the
> one hand. (I'm pretty sure the hexagon and octagon shapes are used
> interchangeably.) And on the other hand something that says what kind of
> road they are.
>
> This all has to be done in such a way that it is compatible with the way
> these things get interpreted by the rendering software so that it isn't too
> hard for them to write the code.
>
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> Jeffrey John Martin
> dogshed at gmail.com
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