[OSM-talk] Display names of crossroads

Paul Norman penorman at mac.com
Wed Feb 13 19:03:27 UTC 2013


> From: Peter Wendorff [mailto:wendorff at uni-paderborn.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 10:21 AM
> To: talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Display names of crossroads
> 
> Am 13.02.2013 14:44, schrieb Hans Schmidt:
> >
> > Concerning tagging: I don’t think that there should be some special
> > tag. The node which intersects both roads should just get a name
> > property. JOSM displays the name there, and I think this is how it
> > should be displayed on osm.org, too.
> Agreed for "no special name tag", but please use highway=junction +
> name=whatever in combination instead of the name tag alone.

How would it work when the intersection also has traffic lights? I know that there will always be some cases where there are tag key collisions but it seems that they will be *very* common in this case between highway=junction and highway=traffic_signals




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