[talk-ph] Broadening coverage.

Mike Collinson mike at ayeltd.biz
Wed Jan 14 16:43:44 GMT 2009


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.

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 :-)

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:

tourism=hotel
name=The Nice Hotel
is_in:country=Philippines
is_in:state=Xxx Province
is_in:island=Panglao
is_in:beach=Alona Beach
...

Mike

At 03:05 PM 14/01/2009, Ed Garcia wrote:
>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?
>
>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.
>
>On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:03 PM, maning sambale <<mailto:emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:  
>Great idea!
>Feel free to improve this for the Philippine setting: 
><http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Weekend_mapping_projects/Form_letters>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Weekend_mapping_projects/Form_letters
>Some tips in writing press releases: 
><http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Writing_a_press_release>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Writing_a_press_release
>> 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.
>Some resorts are in Ed's webpage: 
><http://www.waypoints.ph>www.waypoints.ph
>Maybe Ed can also help us with contacts.  Informal/personal/social 
>contacts sends the message across a lot easier.
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>cheers, 
>maning 
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