GIS.ph

Philippine geographic boundary data (province → barangay level) is scattered across government portals and community shapefile dumps, with inconsistent formats and unclear licensing.

The solution

gis.ph wraps it in a simple REST API — api.gis.ph/v1/barangays style endpoints, Bearer token auth, SDKs/docs for JS, Python, PHP.

What's unique

Granularity (down to 42,000+ barangays) and productization — versioned API, deprecation schedules, tiered pricing/SLA — rather than unique underlying data. The boundaries likely still trace back to PSA/NAMRIA/OSM sources like everyone else; the differentiator is convenience, not exclusivity.

gis.ph isn't stopping at boundary lookups — the roadmap builds toward Census 2020 socio-economic layers, spatial clustering, and logistics routing, then opens into a public layer marketplace with IoT integration for smart cities. The endgame is genuinely exciting: an AI Spatial Co-pilot that lets you query Philippine geography in plain language and get predictive growth modeling back. It's an ambitious multi-year build though — they're currently just wrapping up Phase 1 (the core API), so the flashier stuff is still on the horizon.