[talk-ph] another road renamed, another border duspute

maning sambale emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com
Wed Dec 17 02:31:02 GMT 2008


Can't see why not.

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can we invent a new tag? Something like "old_name_until=2008" to go with
> "old_name"?
>
> Some names are so old (like Gov. Forbes for A.H. Lacson Ave. in Sampaloc or
> even Dewey Boulevard for Roxas Boulevard) that most people don't know them
> anymore.
>
> Renderers can then render the name of the street like "name (old name)" and
> dropping out the "(old name)" part if the old name is more than X years old,
> where X is a renderer-specified number.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:51 AM, maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> In updating renamed roads, can we add alternate names
>> like
>> old_name:Timog Avenue
>> name:GMA Drive
>>
>> Or something similar to that effect?  For instance Gil Puyat is still
>> popularly known as Buendia (Boonja in some
>> foreign-made-highly-inaccurate-maps)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:16 PM, ian lopez <ian_lopez_1115 at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>> > From what I had read in the recent days, 11th Jamboree Street from eds
>> > to
>> > Timog Avenue is now known as GMA Drive. This is similar to renaming
>> > Scout
>> > Albano to Eugenio Lopez, Jr. Drive a few years back.
>> >
>> > Also, portions of Barangay San Lorenzo are being relocated to Barangays
>> > Pio
>> > del Pilar and Bangkal, whcih is technically illegal (in my opinion),
>> > since
>> > it needs a law to be passed by both houses of Congress and the
>> > President's
>> > signature for it to be oficial. I'm not concerned with the motives
>> > behind
>> > it. Rather, I'm putting this up as a reminder: don't move the boundaries
>> > (for now).
>> >
>> > These challenges for us isn't that exciting anyway. But I'm posting it
>> > for
>> > information's sake.
>> >
>> >
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>> cheers,
>> maning
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