geokodigo: An Interface to the Philippine Standard Geographic Codes

The Philippine Standard Geographic Code (PSGC) is a classification and coding of the geographical-political subdivisions of the country, such as the region, the province, the municipality/city and the barangay. The PSGC is currently compiled and updated quarterly through a collaborative effort of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) and its interagency Technical Working Group on Geographic Code (TWGGC) composed of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), Commission on Elections (COMELEC), National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA), and the Land Management Bureau (LMB). This package provides utilities for accessing different versions of the PSGC over time, formatting and structuring them into machine-readable formats.

What does geokodigo do?

Please note that geokodigo is still highly experimental and is undergoing a lot of development. Hence, any functionalities described below and in the rest of the package documentation have a high likelihood of changing interface or approach as we aim for a stable working version.

Currently, the package provides the following functionalities:

• Retrieval and/or download of quarterly PSGC updates released by the PSA on their website;

• Standardised naming of PSGC release files;

• Upload and/or archive raw quarterly PSGC releases onto specific platforms; and,

• Process quarterly PSGC releases into machine-readable and relational database-ready structures.

Installation

geokodigo is not yet on CRAN but can be installed from the panukatan R universe as follows:

install.packages(
  "geokodigo",
  repos = c('https://panukatan.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org')
)

Usage

Citation

If you find the geokodigo package useful please cite using the suggested citation provided by a call to the citation() function as follows:

citation("geokodigo")
#> To cite geokodigo in publications use:
#> 
#>   Ernest Guevarra (2024). geokodigo: An Interface to the Philippine
#>   Standard Geographic Codes R package version 0.0.0.9000 URL
#>   https://panukatan.io/geokodigo/
#> 
#> A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
#> 
#>   @Manual{,
#>     title = {geokodigo: An Interface to the Philippine Standard Geographic Codes},
#>     author = {{Ernest Guevarra}},
#>     year = {2024},
#>     note = {R package version 0.0.0.9000},
#>     url = {https://panukatan.io/geokodigo/},
#>   }

Community guidelines

Feedback, bug reports and feature requests are welcome; file issues or seek support here. If you would like to contribute to the package, please see our contributing guidelines.

This project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.