Hey Would it not be more straight forward to use junction=traffic_signal in Japan and only use highway=traffic_signal for the real lights ?
Just my two ct fly Am 15.09.2014 19:24, schrieb Lukas Sommer: > Okay, I’ve tried to work out more in detail idea 4. Please considere > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tagging_for_complex_junctions_or_traffic_signals_that_are_named > and make comments. > > Lukas Sommer > > 2014-09-02 4:50 GMT+00:00 Satoshi IIDA <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>: > > > Hello from Japan, > > > @Lukas are the names of the traffic signals/junctions actually used in > > addresses (and in principal would be a suitable value for addr:place in > an address)? > No. > We realize the name of traffic signal only for routing and > navigation on local district. > It is very separated concept from "place" (residence of human kind) > tag or "addr:*" (postal delivery) tag. > > The name of traffic signal is not used as addressing system. > And if there are very dense traffic signals, occasionally the names > are like... > "XZY Conter(Chuo)", "XZY North", "XZY West", or so. > > # "XZY" is the name of place or district, like Roppongi or Akihabara. > > > Following maybe off topic... > Hence, some JP mappers had proposed "place=locality" for old/famous > name for mountain path crossing. > e.g. "XZY tsuji (辻, crossing)" or "XZY Touge (峠, peak)". > > They may be acceptable, because we realize them as old/famous place > name. > But I do not feel that it would not suite for modern traffic_signal > system. > > > > > 2014-08-26 6:34 GMT+09:00 Jean-Marc Liotier <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>: > > On 08/25/2014 11:09 PM, Lukas Sommer wrote: > > In Ivory Coast, you have addresses like “in front of the XYZ > crossroad” or “from XYZ crossroad 50 m towards the big > fueling station”. Rather a sort of instructions for getting > somewhere than an address in the european sense. Obviously > “from XYZ crossroad 50 m towards the big fueling station” > will be applied to various houses (usually, when you have > arrived, you make a phone call to the person that you want > to meet, and the person comes to the road to search you and > help you with the last part of the way – I can guarantee you > that this is very time-consuming ;-) > > > That said, people in quite a few African countries have a postal > address (PO box in most cases) distinct from the address of > their residence, so the problem of shoehorning directions in the > standard address fields of European-designed software is > side-stepped more often than not. > > > > _________________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.openstreetmap.__org/listinfo/tagging > <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging> > > > > > -- > Satoshi IIDA > mail: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > twitter: @nyampire > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
