[Talk-ko] New Road sign boards in Daejeon and surroundings

[Robert Helvie]

As I mentioned earlier, the new address system (house number and street
name) will eventually replace the old Japanese style system (block and
lot).
And I suspect the new names, changed in my area too, are just the city's way
of trying to create some sort of "organization". Though I I thought the
named streets were more interesting than the new numbered streets.

I would say go ahead and rename any streets and change any address. Yes,
things may be a bit confusing in some areas for a while, but it will
eventually get better.

Be sure to use the correct tagging scheme for the street names.

name = Hangul (English from the sign)
name:en = English from the sign     (do not translate 'gil' or 'ro')
name:ko_rm = official Romanization of Hangul (found on the Wikipedia page,
though it may look exactly like the English)

Keep of the good work and eventually things will work out for the best.

Robert


On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Familie Fornoff <vineldi at web.de> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> recently our old house number sign was removed and replaced with a new one.
> Means we got now the third address:
>
> For postal purposes our friends still using the very old address similar
> like
> "123-45 Doryong-Dong" and everything is delivered properly.
> Beside of this address our house and all other houses had a signboard with
> an address like
> "Doryong 6 Gil".  Those names I used for tagging under "name:en" and in
> Hangul letters under "name"
>
> After the last renaming 3 months ago the street names sound like
> "Daedock-Daero 678beon-gil". It looks like they link the little streets to
> the big roads as the "Daedock-Daero" is the big road near to our house.
>
> Do you have similar experience? How do you handle? I´m wondering how
> sustainable the new names will be and whether it makes sense to rename all
> streets.
>
> Best regards        Dieter
>
> PS: The positive effect of  above renaming-action: All the countryroads on
> the way to my office have now bilinguar sign boards!!!
>
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