[OSM-talk] Display names of crossroads

[Andrew Errington]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:57:56 Hans Schmidt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there some way to display the names of crossroads on the OSM map?
> This adress scheme is more important than street names in Japan, but
> currently, OSM does not display it. In consequence, it is very hard to
> locate something on the OSM map in Japan. There are almost no street
> names, and because the names of the crossroads are not displayed, you
> don’t have any idea where you are.

I would also like this, for Korea.  Obviously it's a rendering issue, but it 
would be nice if the map on osm.org would have this.

I tried adding a junction=yes tag to a named junction as described in the 
wiki[1], but it would not render a label for me.

In Korea most junctions have large signs with their names.  I showed the 
osm.org map to a Korean friend who was looking very hard for a named junction 
to orient themselves with the map, so it's quite important for Korean map 
users.

Best wishes,

Andrew
 
[1]http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:junction