[talk-ph] Bacolod

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Re: [talk-ph] City in well city names

Hi Eric, There's actually a tag for the official name: official_name=* For the name=* tag itself, it should be what casual people expect to see on maps. So it could be something like: name=Makati City official_name=City of Makati name:tl=Lungsod ng Makati official_name:tl=Lungsod ng Makati or

Re: [talk-ph] City in well city names

We should follow the Philippine Standard Geographic Codes (PSGC) which is available at http://www.nscb.gov.ph/ACTIVESTATS/PSGC/default.asp The official city names are listed there in the quick table. So the official name will either be "City of " or " City" as indicated in the table there.

Re: [talk-ph] City in well city names

Hi Totor, We are having the same problem in Wikipedia. The current naming convention there is to add the "City" but there's a proposal to drop the "City" in most of them. Except for those cities that share names with other prominent places (Iloilo, Cebu, Davao, Cotabato, Isabela, Quezon, Sorsogon

[talk-ph] City in well city names

Yes interesting topic. In my research on this for the OSM page, I found that its subjective to include the City in the name, usually it makes sense to include it for places where there is a province or municipality of the same name. technically speaking the official name is 'Lungsod ng Manil

[talk-ph] Announcing: OSM-PH Marikina Mapping Party

Suggestion for announcing the event to get maximum exposure. Go to facebook and become 'Fans' of Philippine tech and mapping related fan pages, I mean relative groups, not something like a cooking page and post a wall post there with the link to the event. Remember its not spam if its related to

[talk-ph] City in well city names

Hi everybody I put back the City in some city names in cebu : Mandaue City, Lapu-Lapu City and Danao City They were removed some time ago, and while it makes sense (unlike Cebu City, there is no Mandaue island or province...), the road signs indicate Mandaue City and Lapu-Lapu City. The addres

Re: [talk-ph] Announcing: OSM-PH Marikina Mapping Party

Hi, I updated the Marikina Mapping Event Page for the proposed cake slices, let me know if the chunks are manageable especially for newbies. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Mapping_Party/Marikina My estimate is the data collection would take around maximum of two hours