Hi there, My experience in Japan is that the junctions are named, but not oriented. You give directions by saying 'go down this street and turn left at NAME junction'. Or 'take the third right after NAME junction'. Or if you are looking at a map, some junction names are shown, which makes it possible to follow a route by looking up for signs, and carefully counting the streets you pass.
The addressing system in Japan is not based on the crossroads name however. It's a block-based system. The block has a name, and sub-blocks are numbered, and entrances are numbered around the edge of the block (I'm skipping a lot of detail[1]). In Korea, again, junctions are not oriented. Just named. If you are driving, your satnav will announce the junction name that you are to take. If you look out, you will see a sign with the name. Again, with maps, the junction names are printed, which makes it easy to look around, see the signs, and locate yourself on the map. The Korean address system used to be block-based, but now uses named streets with odd/even numbered houses on opposite sides of the road. Best wishes, Andrew [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:34:00 Clifford Snow wrote: > Can help me better understand the naming of junctions. Do junction names > have a direction attribute? How are they used to give directions with no > street names? > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 5:22 AM, Andrew Errington <erringt...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:57:56 Hans Schmidt wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Is there some way to display the names of crossroads on the OSM map? > > > This adress scheme is more important than street names in Japan, but > > > currently, OSM does not display it. In consequence, it is very hard to > > > locate something on the OSM map in Japan. There are almost no street > > > names, and because the names of the crossroads are not displayed, you > > > don’t have any idea where you are. > > > > I would also like this, for Korea. Obviously it's a rendering issue, but > > it > > would be nice if the map on osm.org would have this. > > > > I tried adding a junction=yes tag to a named junction as described in the > > wiki[1], but it would not render a label for me. > > > > In Korea most junctions have large signs with their names. I showed the > > osm.org map to a Korean friend who was looking very hard for a named > > junction > > to orient themselves with the map, so it's quite important for Korean map > > users. > > > > Best wishes, > > > > Andrew > > > > [1]http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:junction > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > talk@openstreetmap.org > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
