[talk-ph] is the text "Province of" necessary in the is_in:state tags?

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

I'm in favor of removing the "Province of".


On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 6:54 PM, maning sambale
<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>wrote:

> Most of the is_in:state tags have the value "Province of" in the name.
>  For example:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/198502660
> gns_classification = ADM2
> gns_uni = -3354889
> is_in:country = Philippines
> is_in:country_code = ph
> is_in:state = Province of Bohol
> name = Loboc
> place = town
> source = GNS
>
> Question, is it too verbose?
>
> Disclosure:
> I'm appending the is_in:state tags to town and cities points in the
> osm-ph garmin map.  See:
> http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/4677828307_622655ea75.jpg
>
> I can of course pre-process the OSM data before compiling the Garmin
> map, but it would be nice to clean the main data if we agree that
> this is redundant.  The benefit I see with the text "Province of"
> remaining in the database is to make it explicitly refer to the
> province since it is added in the is_in:state tag to avoid confusion
> with the "state" from other countries.
>
> --
> cheers,
> maning
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