----- Original Message ----- From: "maning sambale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Talk Openstreetmap" <talk@openstreetmap.org> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 9:10 AM Subject: [OSM-talk] Rendering barangays for the Philippines
> > Hi, > > We are having a discussion in talk-ph on tagging barangays: > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ph/2008-November/000129.html > > The old practice was to tag barangay as place=village. By definition > from the Map Features: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Places > > The tag place=village is almost the same with what we define as > barangay in the Philippines: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barangay I agree. > > Of course the "correct" way would be to tag them as place=barangay and > we will do so from now on. Can we request the renderers to render > them the same as place=village? > > Or any other ideas? Yes, keep tagging them as place=village. This tag is used to denote any settlement of "village" size. It doesn't imply that in the local language such settlements are called "villages". David > > cheers, > maning > > PS: I know others would say just render your own slippymap. We want > to and we will, but not right now, maybe soon. > > > -- > |---------|----------------------------------------------------------| > | __.-._ |"Ohhh. Great warrior. Wars not make one great." -Yoda | > | '-._"7' |"Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden| > | /'.-c |Linux registered user #402901, http://counter.li.org/ | > | | /T |http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ | > | _)_/L I http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ | > |---------|----------------------------------------------------------| > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk