[talk-ph] Makati or Makati City?

maning sambale emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com
Tue Jun 21 05:20:44 BST 2011


Done! http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/8501098
I only touched is_in:city and addr:city.  Let me know if it caused
more harm than good so that I can revert them.


On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Rally de Leon <ralleon at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 Makati
> -1 Makati City
>
> +1 all cities with no similar provincial/regional names or equivalent
> (anywhere in the PH) must be stripped of their "city" suffixes or prefixes
> --- use a separate tag.
> (only exemptions are those: Cebu City (province of Cebu), Quezon City
> (Quezon Province), Sorsogon City (Sorsogon Province), Tarlac City (Tarlac
> Province), and alike etc)
>
> +1 no city suffix or prefix for the likes of cities of "San Fernando" in La
> Union & Pampanga, even if there are towns of the same name such as San
> Fernando's in Bukidnon, Camarines Sur, Cebu, Romblon & Masbate
>
> for the same reason that Los Angeles and San Francisco doesn't have a city
> suffix or prefix in most maps (eg. google maps),  we want to reduce map
> clutter & maintain consistency of city labeling rules
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:16 AM, maning sambale
> <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Two variants of the Makati tags
>>
>> is_in:city
>> Makati - 320
>> Makati City - 1
>>
>> addr:city
>> Makati - 1231
>> Makati City - 11
>>
>> Obviously, "Makati" is more popular.  With the group's permission I
>> would like to remove the word "city" in all of the addr:city and
>> is_in:city tags in Makati
>>
>> --
>> cheers,
>> maning
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cheers,
maning
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