[OSM-talk] Rendering barangays for the Philippines

[Erik Johansson]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:36 PM, David Groom <reviews at pacific-rim.net> wrote:
>> 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".

Please tag it is as place=Barangay.

It isn't pragmatic but the current solution is only convenient. You
loose a lot if you don't allow local languages. It almost works in
anglofied countries, but it's not optimal, by longshot. It would be
very easy to tag roads in Sweden if I could say: "väg=riksväg".
Instead of using an UK created system of tagging.


Take things like place=Hamlet it is just a sea of troubles, really.
And perhaps opposing it with tags like barangay, we would end them.
But I can dream about it.