Excellent! The ability to use OSM data as a national search and location resource for overseas tourism promotion provides a serious demonstration of the value of what we are doing.
I've mapped in each and every Boracay hotel and just used tourism=hotel but any other information, even if you invent your own tags is always useful. It is nice to know if I am booking my family into a resort not a short-time hotel :-) I do not know if it is practical for you but another suggestion is to provide as much supplementary information as possible. It is very easy to write scripts to pull out a list of hotels for an area someone is interested in if this sort of tagging is used: tourism=hotel name=The Nice Hotel is_in:country=Philippines is_in:state=Xxx Province is_in:island=Panglao is_in:beach=Alona Beach ... Mike At 03:05 PM 14/01/2009, Ed Garcia wrote: >Regarding resorts listed at waypointsdotph ... no problem ... I will have >those resorts that have coordinates added to OSM. Btw, what tag will we use >for resorts? will we simply use Hotel? > >As to contact numbers. You can use the ones listed on the website. I can >give Maning the list. Though I already tried to ask the resorts that do not >have gps coordinates to to send in their coordinates but they usually do not >have access to GPS receivers. And locating and pinpointing their >establishments on the current map is not easy either especially for resorts in >the provinces. > >On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:03 PM, maning sambale ><<mailto:emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com>emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com> wrote: >Great idea! >Feel free to improve this for the Philippine setting: ><http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Weekend_mapping_projects/Form_letters>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Weekend_mapping_projects/Form_letters >Some tips in writing press releases: ><http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Writing_a_press_release>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Writing_a_press_release >> It occured to me as I was browsing some of the resorts, that this would be a >> good way to get more people hooked in. All the resorts have bad instructions >> on how to get there, and most of them are in fairly remote areas. So, if we >> were to approach them and suggest that they make sure their bit of the >> Philippines is "on the map", then they can use OSM as a resource on their >> websites, to make sure that customers (especially ones with GPS!) can find >> them. >Some resorts are in Ed's webpage: ><http://www.waypoints.ph>www.waypoints.ph >Maybe Ed can also help us with contacts. Informal/personal/social >contacts sends the message across a lot easier. >-- >cheers, >maning >------------------------------------------------------ >"Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden >wiki: <http://esambale.wikispaces.com/>http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ >blog: <http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/>http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ >------------------------------------------------------ >_______________________________________________ >talk-ph mailing list ><mailto:talk-ph@openstreetmap.org>talk-ph@openstreetmap.org >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > > > > >-- >website administrator: >- <http://www.waypoints.ph>www.waypoints.ph >- <http://reeflife.eppgarcia.com>reeflife.eppgarcia.com > >PADI Divemaster #491048 >_______________________________________________ >talk-ph mailing list >talk-ph@openstreetmap.org >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
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