The reason why there are many place=village is because: 1. There are those subdivisions/gated community that are mistakenly tagged as place=village instead of place=neighbourhood. 2. Aside from a place node some, in addition, a way or relation has been created around the mistaken subdivision or the barangay boundaries itself which doubles the values.
Cities/Towns 1. some are nodes tagged with place=town with adm=6 and placed near the city/town center 2. some are relations tagged as boundary=administrative admin_level=6 type=boundary Ervin M. *Schadow1 Expeditions* - A Filipino must not be a stranger to his own motherland. http://www.s1expeditions.com On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Mark Cupitt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, I am trying to understand the place:ph tagging scheme. I can see > that it holds names specific to the philippines (a lot of them) > > Is it used with other tags to determine the type of place, if so, what > =are the different combinations? > > I can see > > > - place <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place>=village > - > place:ph<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:place:ph&action=edit&redlink=1> > > =barangay<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:place:ph%3Dbarangay&action=edit&redlink=1> > - name <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name>=name of barangay > > > Is that all that is used? are there that many (10,633,534) barangays? I > suspect not so I am obviously missing something > > Where do the City Names Hide > > Regards > > Mark Cupitt > > "If we change the world, let it bear the mark of our intelligence" > > See me on Open StreetMap <https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mark_Cupitt> > > See me on LinkedIn <http://ph.linkedin.com/in/markcupitt> > > > *See me on StackExchange <http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/17846/mark-c>* > > > =============================================================================================== > The contents of this email are intended only for the individual(s) to whom > it is addressed and may contain > confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended > recipient, you must not disclose, copy, distribute, > or use the contents of this email. If you have received this email in > error, please notify the sender immediately and > delete the email and any attachments. > =============================================================================================== > > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > >
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