On 07/07/14 18:20, Jim Morgan wrote:
Senator Gil Puyat to Nicolas Buendia Road:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/146300437/history
Senator Gil Puyat used to be called Buendia, and in fact everyone knows it
as that. I use the old name in taxis so that the driver knows I've been
around for a while.
Maybe it should have an alternate_name tag as Buendia? Would that show up on
searches though? Otherwise pretty useless. I do wish they'd stop changing
road names by the way. Just leave them alone and name a new road after
yourself!
I don't know many places in Metro Manila, but this is one of the few roads I
do know. Jim's right, the road's name in people's mind is Buendia. The MRT
station is called Buendia. I share your annoyance with those bloody
politicians who keep naming stuff after themselves in their endless vanity.
People don't care about repeated renaming, and even if road signs say one
thing, people will ignore it and call it what they've always called it,
causing no ends of confusion, especially for people who are new to the area.
If it was up to me, I'd simply name it "Buendia Avenue", but if you need to be
politically correct, and take into account that there may be one or two street
signs using the other name, maybe "Buendia Ave (Sen Gil Puyat Ave)" or in
worst case "Sen Gil Puyat Ave / Buendia Ave". Not sure what the OSM rules say
about de facto vs. politically correct names?
By the way, the original name was "Buendia Avenue", not "Nicolas Buendia
Road". The patch of asphalt even has its own wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Puyat_Avenue
Ronny.
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