Try viewing the whole Metro Manila, one single province, or one whole town in your screen-monitor. You will notice that the town-POI's close proximity to their admin buildings hardly make a difference, because the user's focus is usually the center of the town-proper or barangay-proper itself.
Like in most map (whether on paper or digital screen), a POI normally has an ICON + TEXT with a font-size larger than the building polygon itself. So if we place the Town-POI directly on top of its respective townhall polygon, we will essentially be covering it (building) with the Town's ICON or <town name> text. What if that townhall polygon contains a Post-office, NBI, Hall of Justice, Comelec, Jail, Police Station, etc? then we effectively block all of them with the 'slightly larger font' of the city-POI placed on top of them. I normally place the town-POI or barangay-POI close to it's administrative building, but in such a way that when viewing the "Vicinity Map", the Town-POI's text should do not cover other texts or icons. I noticed that some OSM map-applications (or equivalent papermap derivatives) may not have smart rendering. So it may be a good practice to manually reposition our town-POI the old-fashion way, so that the map deliver maximum useable information yet still minimizing clutter & bunching of information. Since it's an art & not an exact science, I found by trial & error that 50-150meter (or slightly more but not greater than 250m) are good distance (range) were we can place our Town or Barangay POI away from admin building. Panning & looking for barangay hall or city hall within 100-200meter radius seems relatively easy. The center of poblacion or barangay is normally very close to the administrative hall. Exception: A townhall is sometimes relocated to a new site outside of its poblacion, and the town-POI should not necessarily be moved away from the old towncenter. A good guide is to place it closer to the old townplaza, old church. I'm sure (there are exceptions to this exception). Let's just discuss them here :-) Rally On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Gerardo Calimoso <gcalim...@gmail.com>wrote: > well, that's good if we identify barangay halls, health centers, day > care centers etc. which are all the basic unit of governance in the > barangay. also, may i suggest that we place, if possible, the names of > barangay, city, municipality and the province in the exact location of > the building where it is located like the barangay hall, city hall, > municipal hall and the provincial capitol. > > thanks, > > gerry calimoso > > On 5/29/11, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > Here's a tagging convention for the names for city, municipal and > > barangay halls. > > > > If you have any suggestions, questions or violent reactions, just reply. > :-) > > > > Eugene > > > > -------------------- > > > > Cities: > > name=<name of city> City Hall > > amenity=townhall > > > > Example: Baguio City Hall > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/43615687 > > > > -------------------- > > > > Municipalities: > > name=<name of municipality> Municipal Hall > > amenity=townhall > > > > Example: Silang Municipal Hall, Cavite > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/77326477 > > > > -------------------- > > > > Barangays: > > name=<name of barangay> Barangay Hall > > > > Example: West Triangle Barangay Hall, Quezon City > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/85400671 > > > > -------------------- > > > > Barangays whose names are numbers (e.g., in Manila, Pasay, Caloocan): > > name=Barangay <number of barangay> Hall > > > > Example: Barangay 8 Hall, Pasay City > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/109906510 > > > > -------------------- > > > > Notes and links: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity=townhall > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk-ph mailing list > > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph >
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