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PSGC API

PSGC

PSGC is an open-source API that allows developers to get the geographical data here in the Philippines. It was made after a typhoon happened in our province. The early version was really basic but functionality wise was alright. It was then improved by @rookiemonkey after I shared it on facebook group and later transfered to Wareneutron then finally being moved to OSSPhilippines.

This is the very first and probably my most favorite project out of all. It was just out of boredom because of the power outage after that typhoon. And I thought, while there are many packages out there that uses the geographical data most of them are outdated, and so I decided to make it where my project would be always be updated. To get these geographical data, I wrote a python script that converts the excel file from Philippine Statistics Authority to json and saved it to MongoDB.