[OSM-talk] Display names of crossroads

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2013/2/13 Andrew Errington <erringtona at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:56:40 Kevin Peat wrote:
>> On 13 Feb 2013 12:59, "Hans Schmidt" <z0idberg at gmx.de> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > Is there some way to display the names of crossroads on the OSM map?
>>
>> place=locality
>>
>> Kevin
>
> I don't think that's an appropriate way to name it.  It's not a locality, nor
> is it really a place.  It's a junction, with a name.
>
> I think junction=yes and name=* is the best way to record it, the next step
> would be to get it rendered.


+1
seems logical to use the junction-key for this together with name.
Maybe evaluating just "yes" would not be sufficient though, I imagine
there are also other (specific) types of junctions like
junction=roundabout.

cheers,
Martin