I understand all these arguments, Eugenes proposal may be about the places itself and not the address, but if the places are tagged as quarter, and then the address is tagged barangay, it wouldn't know that barangay equals quarter right?

So that's why I figured it's more consistent if on the map the addr points to quarter.. since the places themselves are also tagged quarter as per Eugenes proposal.

as for the usage, I think you'll find if you skip the usage of the time before Eugenes proposal - and focus only on added and newly created places since that proposal, the ratio isn't 1:3 but already over 1:1 in favor of the quarter usage.

I wonder then - if the solution might lay in adding both.

addr:barangay and addr:quarter

This may seem double then - but at least it's clear for everyone 

As for renderers/routers .. OSMAnd and JOSM doesn't know what to do with Barangay.. maybe Nominatim can find any tag/key/value combination, but the apps I'm using certainly don't know what to do with "barangay"

Maybe there's some special rendering plugin one can install I'm not aware about.

but again, I could imagine just adding addr:barangay and addr:quarter both .. since you're also argumenting that adding the same webstring millions of times into the database is the right practice I'm going to assume here you wouldn't oppose the idea of adding addr:barangay and addr:quarter double, as surely that won't go into the millions LOL


I do recon, now I got the boundaries finally - I started the practice to add country/quarter/ because Baguio back then had no boundaries..

but now we do have - today will visit the DENR for more updated data in this regard - we could indeed just omit both country and quarter/boundary completely.. since we now have the administrative boundaries right?

Maybe that's even better to just omit it completely from the addr:?

except at places where there's boundary disputes.. there it may still be wise then to add both addr:barangay addr:quarter to maintain physical reality on the ground vs official boundary how it should be, but isn't on the ground?

thanks for the discussion btw..
