[talk-ph] Tagging suggestion: Use the branch=* tag!

[Rally de Leon]

ok lang ako with plain branch, it's easier to type.  I have no problem
typing it on josm editor, since it's autofill, once it detects the presence
of at least one name:branch tag in your work area.

'name:branch' is just a personal preference because name & name:branch shows
in sequential/alphabetical order on JOSM. It's nicer to look at, and I like
the name-association approach in our other openstreetmap. eg. the way we use
place:ph which appears close to other place tags (i like the fact that
closely-related-tags tend to bunch together) :-)

anyway, whatever is agreed upon, i'll follow. (what's the approach of other
osm people worldwide or they don't care about the branches?)

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:18 PM, maning sambale
<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>wrote:

> I agree with all your points, perhaps we can start adding the branch
> tag to all common POIs (jollibee, mcdo, etc.)? But why use the
> name:branch instead of just the branch tag?
>
> Of course, I will follow whatever we agree as a group. ;)
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Rally de Leon <ralleon at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:14 AM, maning sambale
> > <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> +1 for adding the branch tag.
> >>
> >> @Rally, is there any additional benefit for using the "name:branch" key?
> >>
> >> In the garmin map, it shows as Name - Branch.
> >>
> >
> > For garmin map, the plan is to add "name" + "-" + "name:branch" when the
> map
> > is compiled, so that it's more convenient to search for a particular shop
> > while you're mobile. (need not look at the properties of every poi on the
> > 'search results' to see if you got the correct address). I'm sure gps
> users
> > know this, and this is the reason why many contributors put the
> branch-name
> > after the shop's name.
> >
> > So why separate (if we will combine them altogether again for garmin
> map)?,
> > because others may want to extract all the Jollibee's, Metrobanks, Mecury
> > Drugs, 7-Eleven's etc. It's much much easier to filter out a specific
> brand
> > (for whatever purpose it may serve, eg. market study).
> >
> > If in the future, I want all my Shell Stations to have a unique custom
> Icon,
> > all I have to do is filter out all name=Shell & amenity=fuel on the style
> > section. If we encourage contributors to put so many different
> name-branch
> > combinations, we might miss out a few branches in the process.
> >
>
>
>
> --
> cheers,
> maning
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