On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Mark Cupitt <markcup...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I also have a question about places:ph, there are a LOT in the database, >> I guess they are implemented with other tags, is there a definitive list of >> what the other tags are? >> >> Seem like Barangays mostly, but possibly some other places? >> > > Taginfo to the rescue! > http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/place%3Aph#values > > Based on Taginfo, 95% of the values of the place:ph=* tag is "barangay" > with a total of number of 1,300. This is actually quite low. There are > almost 42,000 barangays in the Philippines. > > The other values are purok and sitio (which are unofficial subunits of a > barangay) and a few other values that I think are wrong uses of the tag. > To answer the other question, I think the intention of the place:ph=* tag is to definitely indicate that a node tagged as place=village refers specifically to an official barangay instead of some other "village" such as residential subdivisions and gated communities (which should really be tagged with place=neighbourhood) Personally, I would like to use the international designation=* tag to indicate that a place is an official barangay instead of using a Philippine-specific tag like place:ph=*. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:designation Thus, my personal preference is place=village, designation=barangay instead of place=village, place:ph=barangay.
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