Glad someone will take on the challenge! For a brief history, all cities/towns were initially imported from the GNS data 2 years ago. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Data_import
The location is not very accurate. What is needed is to locate the node ideally on the municipal hall or within the city center or poblacion. You can easily do this even with landsat overlay. I believe user:axk did this for some islands in Visayas. We use the place tag to denote location: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place We adopted the following practice for PH: place=city "for cities" place=town "for towns/municipalities" place=village ANDplace:ph=barangay "for barangay" place=hamlet "for villages and subdivisions" Please search the talk-ph list archives for similar discussions as well. There's also a rule for mapping admin boundaries: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Mapping_conventions#Administrative_boundaries This will hopefully improve location search, however, the current admin boundaries are incomplete even at the city/municipality level. As for adding city/municipality for each POI we use the Karlsruhe Schema: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Address Please also note that we have a lot address problems in the country. See this address variations: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Philippine_addressing#Addressing_variations Hope that helps. Good luck! Good luck! On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Jing Iya <jing_...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello All, > > Since you are discussing how to improve the road tagging in OSM Phil., Id > like to ask too, how can we improve the City/Municipality database specially > the one we are using in Garmin GPS. If you will notice, the city or > municipality database is quite confusing and should I say "dirty". > > I am willing to give my time and help clean this up if I would be given the > chance to learn how to group the roads and POIs into the correct City or > Municipality. > > Regards, > > Jing > > > > ________________________________ > Get your new Email address! > Grab the Email name you've always wanted before someone else does! > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > > -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
