[talk-ph] adding place reference to a POI

[Mike Collinson]

At 10:43 AM 21/05/2009, maning sambale wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Some GPS/data contributor (not osm contributor), suggested I add place
>reference to POI like in the name tag Jollibee (Morato) or
>Jollibee-Morato something.  Adding this should allow referencing of
>POI names in GPS units.  However, we have an is_in tag in OSM.
>
>I feel it's the gps map compiler (mkgmap) who should do the work for
>this.  Any ideas?

I agree.  Me, I strictly name stores according to what the store itself says in its sign.  It should not be difficult to write code to look at the is_in tag or addr:street tag and add it to the name.

Mike