Nothing on the wiki, but, it used even outside the PH (although more than half is here in the PH): http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/keys/branch#values http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/Philippines/En/top_undocumented_keys.html
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Rally de Leon <[email protected]> wrote: > ok lang ako with plain branch, it's easier to type. I have no problem > typing it on josm editor, since it's autofill, once it detects the presence > of at least one name:branch tag in your work area. > > 'name:branch' is just a personal preference because name & name:branch shows > in sequential/alphabetical order on JOSM. It's nicer to look at, and I like > the name-association approach in our other openstreetmap. eg. the way we use > place:ph which appears close to other place tags (i like the fact that > closely-related-tags tend to bunch together) :-) > > anyway, whatever is agreed upon, i'll follow. (what's the approach of other > osm people worldwide or they don't care about the branches?) > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:18 PM, maning sambale <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> 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/ >> ------------------------------------------------------ > > -- 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
