In the context of the global conventions, quarters in the Philippines are akin to downtown Poblacion areas. It could be used to tag large subdivisions with each phase as a neighbourhood.
I agree, the current convention is to tag barangays as place=village. Puroks can be tagged as place=neighbourhoods, as with sitios (without "Sitio", following the current barangay tagging convention) unless they are remote , which would then be place=hamlet - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - » email: erwin@ <er...@ngnuity.net>*n**gnu**it**y**.xyz* <http://ngnuity.net/> | gov...@gmail.com » mobile: https://t.me/GOwin » OpenPGP key: 3A93D56B | 5D42 7CCB 8827 9046 1ACB 0B94 63A4 81CE 3A93 D56B On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 8:57 AM Jherome Miguel <jheromemig...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am already seeing retagging of barangays in urban areas (e.g. Metro > Manila) from place=village to place=quarter. Our present guidelines for > tagging local government unit (LGU) says barangays always get tagged as > village regardless if it's in an urban or rural area, but the > recommendation to tag urban barangays to quarter hasn't been documented yet > nor discussed (though I agree with it as they better reflect the situation > in urban areas and the general tagging recommendations). > > Our current guidelines on mapping sitios/puroks is to tag them as > place=neighbourhood, even if it's on a rural or isolated area. I tag them > as place=hamlet instead, as they better reflect how they are in reality > (those are usually clusters of homes with populations of ~100-200, though > those are just approximates as they are not covered in censuses) and best > follows general tagging recommendations. I'm also considering having this > scheme for sitios/puroks depending on their location: > > * Urban - place=neighbourhood > * Rural - place=hamlet > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph >
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