Provide category headings for places

[bjperson]

Variable names speak for themselves in most cases, but it would still be useful.

A proposal for a simple, usable format : categories.json.txt

[RobSoetewey-TomTom]

Hi,

We're not completely understanding the issue you're bringing. Can you clarify? There's a Places Category property in the model here: https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema/blob/main/schema/places/place.yaml#L23-L36

Here are the categories used in overture: https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema/blob/main/task-force-docs/places/overture_categories.csv

[bjperson]

Hi

Right now i’m using :

category = category.replace("_", " ")

category = category[0].upper() + category[1:]

To get the categories names.

It would be nice to have them directly in github. The icing on the cake would be to have translations as well.

[jwass]

Hi @bjperson, I'm not exactly sure if this is what you're looking for but I posted https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema/issues/40#issuecomment-1774972538 how to find the complete list of categories including alternates with an attached csv.

[bjperson]

Hi there,

I was just thinking of something like an "assets" directory in the repository that would contain mappings between category IDs and their human-readable names.

That's the first need I had to display them to my users.

I've almost finished translating it into French, so I can put it somewhere :-)

It could take the form of a "fr.json" file in the format suggested in my first post.

But I don't know whether it should go in the "data" repository or the "schema" repository.