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Data and credits

Who made what the Atlas shows, and the licence each one gave it: every source of this release by the kind of licence it carries, then every photo with its author.

Built from the PSA's list of places, PSGC 2nd Quarter 2026, as of June 30, 2026 · Release 4b394c914208 · Sources read up to October 9, 2026.

The data

3,566 sources, each named beside the figures it gives and listed with its own licence on Sources and methods.

Philippine government works3,432 sources

Laws, orders, statistics and pages of the national and local governments. No copyright subsists in a work of the Government of the Philippines (Republic Act No. 8293, Section 176.1), though the law asks the agency's approval before anyone exploits one for profit.

From The LawPhil Project (Arellano Law Foundation), Congress of the Philippines, Office of the President of the Philippines, National Historical Commission of the Philippines and 1,048 more.

The PSA's open data39 sources

The Philippine Statistics Authority's tables on OpenSTAT, under its Terms of Use, a Creative Commons Attribution licence: anyone may reuse them, crediting the PSA and saying what they changed.

From Philippine Statistics Authority, National Statistics Office. Read the licence

COMELEC's lists16 sources

The Commission on Elections' lists of elected officials. Its site says all of its content is in the public domain unless otherwise stated.

From Commission on Elections (COMELEC). Read the licence

OpenStreetMap3 sources

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database License 1.0, which asks for that credit and that a database made from it be shared under the same licence.

From OpenStreetMap contributors. Read the licence

UN OCHA's borders1 source

The map of barangay borders UN OCHA publishes from the PSA's and NAMRIA's, under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO: anyone may reuse it, crediting it.

From UN OCHA. Read the licence

The Copernicus DEM1 source

The heights of the land, from the European Union's Copernicus programme: free for any use, commercial too, with the Copernicus notice.

From European Union and the European Space Agency. Read the licence

Public domain books and records43 sources

Books and records old enough to be in the public domain, read in Project Gutenberg's editions or the Internet Archive's scans.

From Project Gutenberg, Governor-General of the Philippine Islands, Arthur H. Clark Company, Government of the Philippine Islands, Executive Bureau and 12 more.

Cited, never copied31 sources

Pages whose authors keep all their rights. Scene says what they say in its own words and credits them, and copies none of their text.

From The Freeman, Philippiniana Sacra, University of Santo Tomas, Philippiniana Sacra, Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia and 15 more.

Photos

98 photos from Wikimedia Commons, by 80 authors, each shown where its own geotag or a landmark in it places it, and credited under it on its page.

The Archive

323 old maps and photographs of 136 places, from 22 holders, catalog release e205c7180a5b. Each picture's page names its holder, its rights and its record, and its file carries its credit. The Archive.

Public domain
244 pictures
No known restrictions
56 pictures

Pictures whose licence names their author

Now

595 fiestas, festivals and holidays from October 1, 2026 to December 31, 2027, catalog release b17b56f23649. The country's holidays and special days come from the laws and proclamations below; each of the other 563 listings names its own source on its page: the law, the LGU, the parish or the tourism office that states its date. Now.

What Scene adds

The plain words, the maps drawn from the borders above, and the figures Scene works out from its sources, each labelled as Scene's on the page that shows it. How each is made. Reusing a page: the terms.