[talk-ph] place:PH vs designation

[Jherome Miguel]

I presently use designation now, but I used use tag with place:PH (also
place:ph, the first form of the key in use before the PH is made all caps,
that being the ISO two-letter country code) back then.

On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 9:38 PM Timeo Gut <timeo.gut at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Good evening Jherome,
>
> Just wondering, do you have any preference for these keys? I'm asking
> because you're the one who wrote the wiki page for place:PH.
>
> Despite lack of documentation many if not most active mappers are still
> using designation instead. This has become even more evident after Eugene
> shared his LGU Proposal
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Seav/LGUs>.
>
> Since JAT86's re-tagging in December there are already more than 2000 new
> uses of designation.
>
> If it's okay with you I will transfer the place:PH documentation to a
> subsection of designation and then propose re-tagging on the mailing list.
>
> Regards,
> Timmy
>
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