[OSM-talk] Display names of crossroads

[Joseph Reeves]

The thing with the UK is that you get places named after junctions - Church
Cross, or whatever. That may well be a locality, but it's not the same as
naming the junction. That seems to be the difference with these Japan /
Korea examples.

Joseph


On 13 February 2013 14:37, Kevin Peat <k at k3v.eu> wrote:

>
> On 13 Feb 2013 14:20, "Martin Koppenhoefer" <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote
>
> > +1, place=locality is generally a generic placeholder, which
> > should/could be substituted by the time we dig deeper into toponyms
> > and develop more specific classes...
>
> Well a place is just a named geographical location and I believe this tag
> combination is in common usage for named junctions [it certainly is in my
> part of GB where almost every crossroads is named] which as usual with OSM
> trumps all those people trying to create their idealised tagging schemes.
>
> Be sure to let everyone know when you have developed your "classes" ;]
>
> Kevin
>
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