There's also the more specific townhall:type=barangay ;)

Waterway=stream was intended. Fixed it now, thanks for pointing it out.

Good afternoon and thank you for your contributions to OpenStreetMap. The phone number that you added here seems to contain a typo (11 digits instead of 10), could you please change it to the correct number?

Hello. What is your source for the names added in this changeset? In case of the existing place node you changed the name from Oro to Luhuran. This seems a bit weird as Dapitan does not have a barangay with that name and the nearby schools indicate that Oro is the correct place name.

Good evening. If you want to specify on which side a highway cutting is located you can use cutting=left/right/both. No need to use description tag.

Yes I was. Thanks for the reminder!

Good day. Thanks for catching this!

I removed the tags thinking it was the outdated code for the undivided province, wasn't aware that new codes were assigned already.

Codes restored in this changeset:
osm.org/changeset/148770212

Thanks! I've updated the road attributes accordingly and changed the old highway to secondary to indicate the decrease in importance.

Good day Schadow1. Thanks for updating this. Could you confirm if it is already fully paved/operational? Or are more works needed before it can replace the old Maharlika section as the preferred through-road?

Good morning. Thanks for mapping this college. I've changed the main tag from landuse=institutional to amenity=college and added some more details.

If a fee needs to be paid to use a road or to pass a gate you can use the tag toll=yes.

In this example, does everybody need to be pay the fee including residents of Tierra Benita? Or is this more of a bribe for the guard to let vehicles without sticker pass through?

By the way, is there a road connection at osm.org/node/8318434630 ? On aerial imagery i looks like there is no proper connection, or maybe only passable on foot/bicycle.

I don't think we can. Any data from google is protected by a copyright that does not allow usage for improving OSM.

But it would be confirmation enough if you have visited the place in person or if you have local knowledge about it, no need to provide a public link as proof.

Thanks for adding this new road section! I made some improvments to the tags and the alignment.

The aerial imagery is still very outdated but on strava heatmap it is visible that this is quite a big road. Could you confirm if it's 4 lanes wide and concreted already?

Hey Joshua,

Are bicycles really prohibited from using this road, but motorcycles, cars and everyone else are allowed?

Or could it be that this tag was added based on rider feedback that the road is difficult to ride on due to very rough unpaved surface?

In this case maybe smoothness=very_bad would be more suitable? Then a routing algorithm for delivery riders could avoid it if possible, but routing would still work fine for someone planning a mountain bike ride.

Best regards,
Timmy

Hello Danny. Thanks for mapping so many street names in Mauban.

For place names like the one added in this changeset you can add a place=neighbourhood/quarter/village node instead of mapping it as a street name.

Did it already for Sitio 6: osm.org/node/11405052187

PS: Please also make sure to always add the complete street names, no abbreviations and capital letters at the beginning of words ;)

Thanks for locating and restoring the old node. Duplicate is now deleted.

Good day and thank you for mapping the previously missing Gulf of Leyte.

It doesn't fit the OSM definition of place=sea though, same for the Surigao Strait. The tags natural=bay and natural=strait are sufficient.

Hello and welcome to OpenStreetMap.

Is Zenkids House really a shop that sells video games? Or is it maybe a gaming place / piso net? If the latter then you could change it to amenity=internet_cafe.

Hey Vince,

Due to the geographic isolation that comes with being an archipelago addr:country in the Philippines can be derived from boundaries with 100% accuracy. But I haven't considered the use case mentioned by you. I won't remove the tag anymore from now on.

Regarding addr:province, adding this tag seems to be standard practice in independent cities. While Baguio is administered independently isn't it still considered to be geographically located within Benguet? It is very common for official forms to have a mandatory field for province when asking for an address. What do you enter in those cases?

Moving on to addr:barangay, I'm not sure why this would be non-valid. It has been in local use much longer (since 2014) and has almost double the usage compared to addr:quarter. It is also used by more different mappers and it's more widespread geographically (25% of addr:quarter usage is in Baguio alone). On the data consumer side Nominatim treats both tags as equally valid and most other applications ignore both. Do you know any platform that only processes addr:quarter, but not addr:barangay?

But now to the practical side of things. Postal addresses are a topic entirely independent from OSM place tag assignment. Seav's LGU proposal is exclusively about the latter, he does not mention addresses at all. Just look at how addr:city is globally established for usage with whatever place name goes together with a postal code, regardless if it's mapped as place=city/town/village/suburb in OSM. Another example is how locally in the Philippines we use addr:province despite provinces being mapped as place=state.

Deviating from this practice of using a single tag for a specific address component leads to multiple problems and complications. To start with, only a small part of barangays (small to medium sized urban ones) are place=quarter in OSM. Most are tagged as village, fewer as suburb and some even as neighborhood, hamlet or town. It's also not unusual that mappers change place tags of a barangay without updating all addresses referring to that place. And it then gets even more confusing considering that quarter is also commonly used for large puroks, sitios and other non-administrative places encompassing several smaller neighbourhoods. Because of this a data consumer that wants to know the barangay of an address currently needs to make wild guesses wether it's found in addr:quarter, addr:village, addr:suburb or if it's missing altogether. And for mappers it's a mess too, many seem to just omit the barangay and only add addr:street/city/postcode.

Addr:barangay avoids all these issues by being very clear and unambiguous. An added advantage is that new mappers will immediately understand this tag and are therefore more likely to intuitively start using it.

I was actually wondering the same thing.

But given that survey was mentioned as the source I thought there'd probably be a sign or at least some local usage of the name.

Would anyone know what you're talking about if you'd suggest to meet up at the SM Mini Park?