I was about to post the message below when I was pleasantly surprised to discover that this has been addressed now and the enhancement is already on the main map web page of OSM...<br><br>>>> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">Gathering all discussions regarding resorts and how to locate them, one thing would be really "nice to have" on the OSM main map ... a marker icon and perhaps a baloon with info indicating the location of a searched item.</span><br>
<br>This is excellent! I tried to search one of the schools I added (Tungkong Mangga Elementary School) with the keyword tungkong and was so pleased with what OSM displayed. <br><br><a href="http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=14.78758&lon=121.07228&zoom=17&layers=B000FTT">http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=14.78758&lon=121.07228&zoom=17&layers=B000FTT</a><br>
<br>Now perfect for POI searching! <br><br>Question ... I tried to search by "vicinity" like: "hotels in boracay" and it does not show any items. I was wishing the search can be enhanced so that it has the ability to shortlist by category and by location, I thought this would be possible since the POIs will have the tourism=x and is_in: tags anyway. This is how resorts are organized in WaypointsDotPH. If this can be done in OSM, then traveller queries like that of Jim Morgan can easily be answered by the search facility of OSM.<br>
<br style="background-color: rgb(102, 51, 255);">cheers<br>ed<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:27 AM, maning sambale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com">emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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> 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>
</div>Excellent example! I think I've this area a bit.<br>
I agree we add this info to the POIs.<br>
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maning<br>
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