Philippines/Addressing

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This page documents discussions on addressing scheme for the Philippines. The purpose is for areas with completed roads, we start including address data as well. At the moment we can start with physical address and not the P.O. box.

Contents 1 Addressing variations 1.1 from the PhilPost 2 Proposed schema 2.1 Tags 2.2 Others

Addressing variations

from the PhilPost

Metro Manila address formats P.O. boxes

   Mr. Juan dela Cruz
   P.O. Box 1201, Manila Central Post Office
   1050 Manila

   Mr. Juan C. Masipag
   P.O. Box 1121, Araneta Center Post Office
   1135 Quezon City, Metro Manila

Direct delivery

   Miss Teresita C. Metrillo
   7114 Kundiman Street, Sampaloc
   1008 Manila

   Miss Auria M. Francisco
   75 P. Domingo Street, Carmona, Makati City
   1207 Metro Manila

Provincial address formats

P.O. boxes

   Ms. Perlita A. Sanchez
   P.O. Box 1000, Gasan Post Office
   4905 Gasan, Marinduque

Direct delivery

   Mr. Samuel H. Magtanggol
   95 Hermogenes Street, Sofia Subdivision
   Del Pilar, San Fernando City
   2000 Pampanga

Address in subdivisions

   Block # Lot # X Subdivision 
   Y Barangay, Z City
   Zipcode, Metro Manila

Others

   (1) house number or Lot/Blk/Phase, (2) Floor Number, (3) building name or Apartment name, (4) streetname, 
   (5) sitio or purok, (6) > subdivision name (or project name), 
   (7) barangay name, (8) town or city name, 
   (9) province, (10) regions name, (11) country name, (12) zip code

Proposed schema

I suggest we adopt the Karlsruhe Schema and adopt all possible tags that fit the Philippines

Tags

The following tags are defined and in common use:

Tag	required	Element-Type	Values	Description
addr:has_apartments	optional		boolean	"true" if this address is an apartment complex, "false" if not.
addr:apartment_number_format	optional		string	number format of apartment building. Several number formats may be supplied, separated by commas. A = alphabetic (optional), Z = alphabetic (required), 0 = numeric (optional), 9 = numeric (required). Examples: "9" = one numeric digit, "Z" = one alphabetic character, "999a" = three numeric digits with optional lower case alphabetic character (such as "123" or "123b"), "Z,09" = "either one alphabetic character or one or two numeric digits (such as "K", "1" or "15")
addr:housenumber or addr:housename	required		string	The "house number". May contain non-digits. If a single entry has multiple house numbers, separate them by ",". e.g. "12b,12c".
addr:street	optional		string	The (main) name of the related street. If not given a program may assume the name of the nearest street it can find, but this is not easy or fast to do in all cases, so putting the name in here is encouraged.
addr:building	optional		string	Name or number of of building or apartment complex.
addr:subdivision	optional		string	Village or subdivision.
addr:sitio	optional		string	Sitio or Purok. In rural areas, this often the best indication of where an address can be located.
addr:barangay	optional		string	Barangay.
addr:postcode	optional		string	Postal code of the building/addressed area. Different countries have different length and different characters allowed for postal codes.
addr:city	optional		string	City as used in postal addresses of the building/addressed area.
addr:province	optional		string	Province as used in postal addresses of the building/addressed area.
addr:country	optional		2-letter string	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 two letter country code in upper case (see wikipedia:ISO 3166-1 alpha-2). "PH" for Philippines.
addr:full	optional		string	Full postal address. This can be used in addition to other tags if the other tags are not enough to fully describe an address.
addr:interpolation	required		even/odd/all/alphabetic	To interpolate the house numbers belonging to the way along the related street.

Others

I've seen several houses with "old" and "new" number. I assume we tag the "new" number

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