On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:28 AM, John Henderson <snow...@gmx.com> wrote: > Steve Bennett wrote: >> Yeah, good work. Should the name be "Bairnsdale Centrelink" or just >> "Centrelink"? > > I'm all for putting town/suburb names in as well. One place where it > matters is looking up POIs on GPS units. > > These are sorted by proximity to current location. And when using the > feature to find fuel outlets for example, it's a tremendous help to have > suburb names in the lists you get instead of just: > > BP > Woolworths > Caltex/Woolworths > Slell Coles > Mobil > BP > BP > Caltex/Woolworths, and so on.
But isn't this a problem with the user i.e. the GPS unit software? I.e. shouldn't the suburb be retrieved from an admin boundary if required? IMHO the name=* value should be the name. If it's actually called "Bairnsdale Centrelink" then fine, but I wouldn't add it just to change the behaviour of some other software. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au