> On Nov 13, 2015, at 7:46 PM, tomoya muramoto <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Severe problem: Different names


I did a quick look around, and this signal-grid naming issue seems to be pretty 
big, but only in Hokkaido. I never noticed this, as I have not been to Hokkaido 
yet.  several cities up there (Sapporo, Chitose, Obihiro, etc). all have this 
issue: they use different names on each signal of the intersection signals to 
show what grid section you are entering, which means people going through the 
junction in different directions see different signal names.   There are 
probably several hundred signal sets in Hokkaido that are named in this manner 
(a ton of individual signals). 

Checking out cities on the Main Island Honshu, as well as Shikoku, Kyushu, and 
Okinawa all don’t seem to have this grid issue. I couldn’t find one outside 
Hokkaido. 


I spent 20 seconds in each city, (And I have visited 17 of them)  looking over 
a high zoom level for these odd signal names, but I didn’t see any.  Maybe 
there is a few oddly named signals in the following cities, but it seems like 
they use a standard “one name, one set of signals” idea for the named signals 
in their downtown areas. 

 This list covers all of the larger cities in Japan, besides Sapporo. 

So I’m guessing this grid issue is related to Hokkaido’s long time territory 
(-do) status (though that is just a guess), and not really an issue in the rest 
of Japan.


But since there are several thousand individually named signals in hundreds of 
sets, then we need to:

- come up with a solution that can handle this issue (1 icon, 4 labels) 

or

 - follow the route of google/Zenrin/Mapion/Yahoo and make a single name with 
the different high/low grid values for the set (1 icon, 1 label). 

Javbw




- Aomori
- Morioka
- Akita
- Sendai
- Ishinomaki
- Yamagata
- Fukushima
- Mito
- Nagano
- Matsumoto
- Toyama
- Maebashi / Takasaki
- Saitama
- Tokyo
- Chiba
- Hamamatsu
- Nagoya
- Osaka
- Kyoto
- Okayama
- Tokushima
- Kochi
- Hiroshima
- Kitakyushu
- Kumamoto
- Kagoshima
- Nagasaki
- Naha

_______________________________________________
Tagging mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Reply via email to