[OSM-talk] Rendering barangays for the Philippines

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "maning sambale" <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
To: "Talk Openstreetmap" <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 9:10 AM
Subject: [OSM-talk] Rendering barangays for the Philippines


>
> Hi,
>
> We are having a discussion in talk-ph on tagging barangays:
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ph/2008-November/000129.html
>
> The old practice was to tag barangay as place=village.  By definition
> from the Map Features:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Places
>
> The tag place=village is almost the same with what we define as
> barangay in the Philippines:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barangay

I agree.
>
> Of course the "correct" way would be to tag them as place=barangay and
> we will do so from now on.  Can we request the renderers to render
> them the same as place=village?
>
> Or any other ideas?

Yes, keep tagging them as place=village.

This tag is used to denote any settlement of "village" size.  It doesn't 
imply that in the local language such settlements are called "villages".

David
>
> cheers,
> maning
>
> PS:  I know others would say just render your own slippymap.  We want
> to and we will, but not right now, maybe soon.
>
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