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

maning sambale emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com
Wed Oct 27 13:43:36 BST 2010


I am doing deletion of "Province of" in the is_in:state = in batches.
Let me know if I missed certain areas or whether to exclude your own
mapping patch/territory.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/6195067
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/6194871
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/6180884

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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maning
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