[OSM-talk] Display names of crossroads

Hans Schmidt z0idberg at gmx.de
Wed Feb 13 19:42:12 UTC 2013


Am 13.02.2013 19:21, schrieb Peter Wendorff:
> Agreed for "no special name tag", but please use highway=junction + 
> name=whatever in combination instead of the name tag alone. 

Yes, in retrospect, this is really better.

Am 13.02.2013 15:10, schrieb Janko Mihelić:
> How is it best rendered? With a little rectangle around it like Google 
> Maps? Is there a usual way of rendering that?

I have another street atlas (an oldschool printed book with pages) which 
renders it as a blue rectangle box with the name in it. So I guess some 
kind of "box" would be nice. Bing Maps also has a box (there it is blue 
font in white rectangle).

Am 13.02.2013 20:03, schrieb Paul Norman:
> 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

Yes, actually the crossroads I tagged before all have traffic lights (I 
would even presume this is the more common case, because only the major 
crossroads have names, and they tend to have traffic lights - there may 
be exceptions, though).


Nice to see the discussion going on :) Let's hope that there is a change 
in rendering :)
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