<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Thanks Maning,<br><br>Yes, the lot address is something we cannot do unfortunately. I will start studying the city database, hope I can do something about it.<br><br>For the time being, I will concentrate on the City/Municipality since it is more important than the Barangay.<br><br>Jing<br><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> osm-ph <talk-ph@openstreetmap.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, January 27, 2010 11:59:58<br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [talk-ph] City Database<br></font><br>Glad someone will take on the challenge!<br><br>For a brief history, all cities/towns were initially imported from the<br>GNS data 2 years ago.<br><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Data_import" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Data_import</a><br><br>The location is not very accurate. What is needed is to locate the<br>node ideally on the municipal hall or within the city center or<br>poblacion. You can easily do this even with landsat overlay. I<br>believe user:axk did this for some islands in Visayas.<br><br>We use the place tag to denote location:<br><br><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place</a><br><br>We adopted the following practice for PH:<br>place=city "for cities" <br>place=town
"for towns/municipalities"<br>place=village ANDplace:ph=barangay "for barangay" <br>place=hamlet "for villages and subdivisions"<br><br>Please search the talk-ph list archives for similar discussions as well.<br><br>There's also a rule for mapping admin boundaries:<br><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Mapping_conventions#Administrative_boundaries" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Mapping_conventions#Administrative_boundaries</a><br><br>This will hopefully improve location search, however, the current<br>admin boundaries are incomplete even at the city/municipality level.<br><br>As for adding city/municipality for each POI we use the Karlsruhe Schema:<br><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Address" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Address</a><br><br>Please also note that we have a lot address
problems in the country.<br>See this address variations:<br><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Philippine_addressing#Addressing_variations" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Philippine_addressing#Addressing_variations</a><br><br>Hope that helps. Good luck!<br>Good luck!<br><br><br><br>On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Jing Iya <<a ymailto="mailto:jing_iya@yahoo.com" href="mailto:jing_iya@yahoo.com">jing_iya@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hello All,<br>><br>> Since you are discussing how to improve the road tagging in OSM Phil., Id<br>> like to ask too, how can we improve the City/Municipality database specially<br>> the one we are using in Garmin GPS. If you will notice, the city or<br>> municipality database is quite confusing and should I say "dirty".<br>><br>> I am willing to give my time and help clean this up if I would be given the<br>>
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