ok lang ako with plain branch, it's easier to type. I have no problem typing it on josm editor, since it's autofill, once it detects the presence of at least one name:branch tag in your work area.<br><br>'name:branch' is just a personal preference because name & name:branch shows in sequential/alphabetical order on JOSM. It's nicer to look at, and I like the name-association approach in our other openstreetmap. eg. the way we use place:ph which appears close to other place tags (i like the fact that closely-related-tags tend to bunch together) :-)<br>
<br>anyway, whatever is agreed upon, i'll follow. (what's the approach of other osm people worldwide or they don't care about the branches?)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:18 PM, maning sambale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com">emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I agree with all your points, perhaps we can start adding the branch<br>
tag to all common POIs (jollibee, mcdo, etc.)? But why use the<br>
name:branch instead of just the branch tag?<br>
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Of course, I will follow whatever we agree as a group. ;)<br>
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Rally de Leon <<a href="mailto:ralleon@gmail.com">ralleon@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:14 AM, maning sambale<br>
> <<a href="mailto:emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com">emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> +1 for adding the branch tag.<br>
>><br>
>> @Rally, is there any additional benefit for using the "name:branch" key?<br>
>><br>
>> In the garmin map, it shows as Name - Branch.<br>
>><br>
><br>
> For garmin map, the plan is to add "name" + "-" + "name:branch" when the map<br>
> is compiled, so that it's more convenient to search for a particular shop<br>
> while you're mobile. (need not look at the properties of every poi on the<br>
> 'search results' to see if you got the correct address). I'm sure gps users<br>
> know this, and this is the reason why many contributors put the branch-name<br>
> after the shop's name.<br>
><br>
> So why separate (if we will combine them altogether again for garmin map)?,<br>
> because others may want to extract all the Jollibee's, Metrobanks, Mecury<br>
> Drugs, 7-Eleven's etc. It's much much easier to filter out a specific brand<br>
> (for whatever purpose it may serve, eg. market study).<br>
><br>
> If in the future, I want all my Shell Stations to have a unique custom Icon,<br>
> all I have to do is filter out all name=Shell & amenity=fuel on the style<br>
> section. If we encourage contributors to put so many different name-branch<br>
> combinations, we might miss out a few branches in the process.<br>
><br>
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