At 06:37 AM 15/01/2009, D Tucny wrote:
>The namefinder uses 'near' rather than 'in', so you search for "hotels in
>boracay" would be written as "hotels near boracay", which returns no results
>for some reason... doing a search for "hotels near manila" returns some
>results though, so it's at lea
2009/1/15 Ed Garcia
> I was about to post the message below when I was pleasantly surprised to
> discover that this has been addressed now and the enhancement is already on
> the main map web page of OSM...
>
> >>> Gathering all discussions regarding resorts and how to locate them,
> one thing wo
I was about to post the message below when I was pleasantly surprised to
discover that this has been addressed now and the enhancement is already on
the main map web page of OSM...
>>> Gathering all discussions regarding resorts and how to locate them, one
thing would be really "nice to have" on t
>
> tourism=hotel
> name=The Nice Hotel
> is_in:country=Philippines
> is_in:state=Xxx Province
> is_in:island=Panglao
> is_in:beach=Alona Beach
Excellent example! I think I've this area a bit.
I agree we add this info to the POIs.
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cheers,
maning
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Excellent! The ability to use OSM data as a national search and location
resource for overseas tourism promotion provides a serious demonstration of the
value of what we are doing.
I've mapped in each and every Boracay hotel and just used tourism=hotel but any
other information, even if you in
Regarding resorts listed at waypointsdotph ... no problem ... I will have
those resorts that have coordinates added to OSM. Btw, what tag will we use
for resorts? will we simply use Hotel?
As to contact numbers. You can use the ones listed on the website. I can
give Maning the list. Though I
Great idea!
Feel free to improve this for the Philippine setting:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Weekend_mapping_projects/Form_letters
Some tips in writing press releases:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Writing_a_press_release
> It occured to me as I was browsing some of the resorts
Hi,
I was just looking for somewhere for some visiting friends to stay when they
arrive from Hong Kong during Chinese New Year. I was looking for somewhere in
Zambales, and of course while I was looking I had a copy of OSM open.
It occured to me as I was browsing some of the resorts, that this
