Javbw
> On Nov 13, 2015, at 6:45 AM, John Eldredge <j...@jfeldredge.com> wrote:
>
> Could you have a named signal at a named junction, with different names?
Afaik, named road junctions do not exist in Japan (motorway junctions are
named, but not normal roads with signals) I am not sure about other places.
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The closest thing is when a major street is named after the place=quarter(?) it
goes through, and the area is broken up into numbered blocks (not street
addresses for the buildings, but sequential block numbers) and the signals are
basically numbered along with the adjacent area, So:
Driving down Honcho street through honcho sections 1, 2, 3, etc , the signal
names will match Honcho 1, Honcho2, honcho3.
But this only happens for secondary/primary/trunks *sometimes*.
Other times they will be named like "station north entrance" or just the name
of the village, if it is a small place. Some are named as "foobar mountain
entrance", because it is where you turn to drive up the large mountain - so
expecting the signal names to be in some kind of sequential order, related to
the current town name or nearby buildings is not good, as it is very
inconsistent - hence the names need to be rendered, as provided mapping
instructions and visible signage on where to turn - either on paper maps, a
printed brochure or online PDF, or GPS navi systems are all based on signal
names (when present) to tell you where to turn, or give you a reference point
to count signals past that point on where to turn.
Javbw.
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