Hi guys, sorry, i can hardly follow up anymore. I made the mistake to join three global OSM-talk-groups (talk, talk-legal and legal-general) and since then my inbox is BLOW AWAY by incomming traffic :/
Reg. the matter at hand: It is in fact a little bit tricky. Buendia Ave is tagged Senator Gil Puyat on a large strip now. Hmm. To be honest - and this is nothing against Senator Puyat - but I absolutely dont know anyone who calls that Street Puyat rather than Buendia. At least not the Makati portion of it. I think it should be name= and alt_name= for the names commonly used, i.e. the name ppl on the street actually use for that street. The rederers should display them as something like [name]([alt_name]), which they dont do yet, afaik. old_name= should be used for a former name, that is commonly accepted as derelicted. A tag new_name= might be used for a new name, that has not yet been commonly adopted ... and then eventually become alt_name, then name. OSM is a living map,that will adopt changes in the realworld at any time. Displaying historic names (i.e. names that fall under old_name=) on the normal map will make it confusing. For a historic map, someone should create a special historic-renderer. (That's the good thing about OSM, that you can use the data in many different ways.) Cheers Soren > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: "maning sambale" <emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com> > Gesendet: 17.12.08 03:31:20 > An: "Eugene Alvin Villar" <sea...@gmail.com> > CC: OSM <talk-ph@openstreetmap.org> > Betreff: Re: [talk-ph] another road renamed, another border duspute > Can't see why not. > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Can we invent a new tag? Something like "old_name_until=2008" to go with > > "old_name"? > > > > Some names are so old (like Gov. Forbes for A.H. Lacson Ave. in Sampaloc or > > even Dewey Boulevard for Roxas Boulevard) that most people don't know them > > anymore. > > > > Renderers can then render the name of the street like "name (old name)" and > > dropping out the "(old name)" part if the old name is more than X years old, > > where X is a renderer-specified number. > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:51 AM, maning sambale <emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> In updating renamed roads, can we add alternate names > >> like > >> old_name:Timog Avenue > >> name:GMA Drive > >> > >> Or something similar to that effect? For instance Gil Puyat is still > >> popularly known as Buendia (Boonja in some > >> foreign-made-highly-inaccurate-maps) > >> > >> > >> > >> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:16 PM, ian lopez <ian_lopez_1...@yahoo.com> > >> wrote: > >> > From what I had read in the recent days, 11th Jamboree Street from eds > >> > to > >> > Timog Avenue is now known as GMA Drive. This is similar to renaming > >> > Scout > >> > Albano to Eugenio Lopez, Jr. Drive a few years back. > >> > > >> > Also, portions of Barangay San Lorenzo are being relocated to Barangays > >> > Pio > >> > del Pilar and Bangkal, whcih is technically illegal (in my opinion), > >> > since > >> > it needs a law to be passed by both houses of Congress and the > >> > President's > >> > signature for it to be oficial. I'm not concerned with the motives > >> > behind > >> > it. Rather, I'm putting this up as a reminder: don't move the boundaries > >> > (for now). > >> > > >> > These challenges for us isn't that exciting anyway. But I'm posting it > >> > for > >> > information's sake. > >> > > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > 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 > > > > > > > > -- > > http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com > > > > > > -- > 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 > _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
