I agree with all your points, perhaps we can start adding the branch tag to all common POIs (jollibee, mcdo, etc.)? But why use the name:branch instead of just the branch tag?
Of course, I will follow whatever we agree as a group. ;) On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Rally de Leon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:14 AM, maning sambale > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> +1 for adding the branch tag. >> >> @Rally, is there any additional benefit for using the "name:branch" key? >> >> In the garmin map, it shows as Name - Branch. >> > > For garmin map, the plan is to add "name" + "-" + "name:branch" when the map > is compiled, so that it's more convenient to search for a particular shop > while you're mobile. (need not look at the properties of every poi on the > 'search results' to see if you got the correct address). I'm sure gps users > know this, and this is the reason why many contributors put the branch-name > after the shop's name. > > So why separate (if we will combine them altogether again for garmin map)?, > because others may want to extract all the Jollibee's, Metrobanks, Mecury > Drugs, 7-Eleven's etc. It's much much easier to filter out a specific brand > (for whatever purpose it may serve, eg. market study). > > If in the future, I want all my Shell Stations to have a unique custom Icon, > all I have to do is filter out all name=Shell & amenity=fuel on the style > section. If we encourage contributors to put so many different name-branch > combinations, we might miss out a few branches in the process. > -- 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 [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
