[OSM-talk] Display names of crossroads

[Craig Wallace]

On 13/02/2013 15:03, AJ Ashton wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:56 AM, AJ Ashton <aj.ashton at gmail.com
> <mailto:aj.ashton at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Let's not add to the "everything=yes" approach to tagging but go
>     with an existing key - "highway seems appropriate. In fact
>     "highway=junction" seems to already be in use for this purpose with
>     ~123 occurences.
>
> Or nevermind, I guess junction already has a wider tagging scheme. Still
> I wonder what a better option than "yes" is.

You could use something like junction=crossroads or junction=t, to 
specify what sort of junction it is.
Though this seems somewhat pointless, as the fact that its a crossroads 
or T-junction should be obvious from the geometry of the ways.

highway=junction would conflict with other highway tags. eg many 
T-junctions or crossroads are also tagged with highway=traffic_signals.

Craig