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title: 'Open Philippine LGU Data: WikidataCon 2021 meetup'

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# Open Philippine LGU Data: WikidataCon 2021 meetup

["Finished adding (digitizing) the boundaries of the 15 barangays of the municipality of Mapandan, Pangasinan into @OpenStreetMap, creating their @Wikidata items, and linking the two datasets with each other. #OpenData"](https://twitter.com/__seav__/status/1449257512289533954) —@\_\_seav\_\_

![Mapandan barangays in OSM](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBzLt55VEAUiYUA?format=jpg&name=large)
![Mapandan barangays in Wikidata](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBzLwveVQAABWHf?format=jpg&name=large)

## Current status (rough!)

### Wikidata
- Property [Philippine Standard Geographic Code (P988)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P988) was created on October 23, 2013 and is the first PH-related property created in Wikidata
  - Other LGU-related property: [income classification (P1879)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1879)
- 3 island groups, 17 regions (and 1 for Negros Island Region), 81 provinces (and several former provinces), and all +1,600 cities and municipalities have Wikidata items
  - 2020 census population data has already been imported into Wikidata by Exec8
- 3,455 barangay Wikidata items, but only 2,983 have P988 (PSGC)
  - There are still many (hundreds?) of Wikidata items created from and linked to Wikipedia articles that are barangays but do not have `instance of (P31)` set to `barangay (Q61878)`. Example: [`New Culaylayan (Q18608780)`](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18608780) of Linapacan, Palawan
- Issue: Import of items from the Cebuano Wikipedia has created hundreds of duplicate Wikidata items on places (mostly municipalities). Example: Quinapondan, Eastern Samar:
  - [ceb:Quinapondan, Eastern Samar](https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinapondan,_Eastern_Samar) ([d:Q314175](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314175))
  - [ceb:Quinapundan (munisipyo)](https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinapundan_(munisipyo)) ([d:Q31482195](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31482195))
  - [ceb:Quinapundan (kapital sa munisipyo)](https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinapundan_(kapital_sa_munisipyo)) ([d:Q31482173](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31482173))


### OpenStreetMap
- 3 island groups, 17 regions, 81 provinces have boundaries and PSGC as `ref=*` tag and are linked to Wikidata via the `wikidata=*` tag.
- All cities and municipalities have place nodes but only 529 have boundaries. But important tags (especially PSGC) are missing and some place nodes are not members of their boundary relations.
- The status for barangays is even more incomplete.
- I currently have a tagging proposal for mapping and tagging LGUs: wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Seav/LGUs

## Ideas and plans (brainstorming time!)

### Clean-up and adding of missing info and links

### Mapping boundaries
