[OSM-talk] Display names of crossroads

[Clifford Snow]

Can help me better understand the naming of junctions. Do junction names
have a direction attribute? How are they used to give directions with no
street names?



On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 5:22 AM, Andrew Errington <erringtona at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>
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