[talk-ph] Project NOAH asking everyone to map in OSM

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

My understanding is that you only add another term to the key name (ref=*
--> ref:isil=*) if it is highly likely that some other ID or coding system
has a higher priority for the basic ref=* tag.

For example, I think each World Heritage Site has an assigned reference
code by UNESCO. For example, Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park has the reference
code 653bis[1], but we should probably not tag it as ref=653bis because the
national park may have its own coding system in the Philippine Government.
So the tag could be ref:whc=653bis as proposed[2].

On the other hand, we have many basic ref=* keys such as:

- int_ref=* (international)
- nat_ref=* (national)
- reg_ref=* (regional)
- loc_ref=* (local)
- etc.

So we could also tag Tubbataha as int_ref=653bis.

Basically, as I understand it, adding another term to the key name is only
done as a last resort. The only advantage I can see with using ref:doh=* is
that its meaning is easier to understand. But that can be easily addressed
with proper PH tag documentation in the OSM Wiki.

Anyway, I'd like to know what other people think so that we have a rough
consensus on what key to use to tag the DOH facility code on hospitals in
OSM.

Choices:

ref=*
nat_ref=*
ref:doh=*

[1] http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/653
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/heritage


On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:41 PM, maning sambale
<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Can I suggest that we use either ref=* or nat_ref=* tag for the DOH
> facility
> > code assigned to each hospital? This tag is intended for indicating
> > reference numbers/codes/IDs as assigned by some official authority.
> >
> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ref
> >
> > For example, East Avenue Medical Center is assigned the code 504. So we
> > should add ref=504 or nat_ref=504 to the hospital POI.
>
> Sure! I actually tested that yesterday
> (http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/54025002).
> I have to correct my tagging and also remove the zeroes.
>
> From the wiki (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ref), the ref
> tag is used in various ways by adding namespace.  Should we used
> ref:doh=504 like the isil ref
> (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ref:isil)?
>
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