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Excellent! The ability to use OSM data as a national search and
location resource for overseas tourism promotion provides a serious
demonstration of the value of what we are doing.<br><br>
I've mapped in each and every Boracay hotel and just used tourism=hotel
but any other information, even if you invent your own tags is always
useful. It is nice to know if I am booking my family into a resort not a
short-time hotel :-)<br><br>
I do not know if it is practical for you but another suggestion is to
provide as much supplementary information as possible. It is very
easy to write scripts to pull out a list of hotels for an area someone is
interested in if this sort of tagging is used:<br><br>
tourism=hotel<br>
name=The Nice Hotel<br>
is_in:country=Philippines<br>
is_in:state=Xxx Province<br>
is_in:island=Panglao<br>
is_in:beach=Alona Beach<br>
...<br><br>
Mike<br><br>
At 03:05 PM 14/01/2009, Ed Garcia wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Regarding resorts listed at
waypointsdotph ... no problem ... I will have those resorts that have
coordinates added to OSM. Btw, what tag will we use for
resorts? will we simply use Hotel?<br><br>
As to contact numbers. You can use the ones listed on the
website. I can give Maning the list. Though I already tried
to ask the resorts that do not have gps coordinates to to send in their
coordinates but they usually do not have access to GPS receivers.
And locating and pinpointing their establishments on the current map is
not easy either especially for resorts in the provinces.<br><br>
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:03 PM, maning sambale
<<a href="mailto:emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com">
emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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<dd>Great idea!<br>
<dd>Feel free to improve this for the Philippine setting:
<dd>
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Weekend_mapping_projects/Form_letters">
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Weekend_mapping_projects/Form_letters</a>
<br>
<dd>Some tips in writing press releases:
<dd><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Writing_a_press_release">
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Writing_a_press_release</a><br>
<dd>> It occured to me as I was browsing some of the resorts, that
this would be a good way to get more people hooked in. All the resorts
have bad instructions on how to get there, and most of them are in fairly
remote areas. So, if we were to approach them and suggest that they make
sure their bit of the Philippines is "on the map", then they
can use OSM as a resource on their websites, to make sure that customers
(especially ones with GPS!) can find them.<br>
<dd>Some resorts are in Ed's webpage:
<dd><a href="http://www.waypoints.ph">www.waypoints.ph</a><br>
<dd>Maybe Ed can also help us with contacts.
Informal/personal/social
<dd>contacts sends the message across a lot
easier.<font color="#888888"><br>
<dd>--
<dd>cheers,
<dd>maning
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<dd>"Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden
<dd>wiki:
<a href="http://esambale.wikispaces.com/">
http://esambale.wikispaces.com/</a>
<dd>blog:
<a href="http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/">
http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/</a></font>
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