Confirm Data Accuracy: Best Practices – Philippines (en_PH)

Research involves verifying the data through an official source (i.e official website or claimed social media) or 3 unofficial sources. Clearly unreliable sources should not be considered at all.

Use official resources like businesses’ official websites, national postal service websites, and government websites whenever possible (Guidelines section 2.1.1)

If you can’t verify the data correct or incorrect, rate Can’t Verify.

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To give you some guidance, please see below some of the resources that Analysts from Philippines (en_PH) market have reported to be helpful when performing research:

Helpful Map Applications:

Google Maps
Yelp
Bing Maps
Yandex
Mapcentral (http://mapcentral.ph/)
OpenStreetMap (https://OpenStreetMap.org)

Helpful resources to research Name Accuracy

Official company websites (always first step!)
Facebook
Zomato
Foursquare
Yelp
Street Imagery (Google Street View)

Helpful resources to research Address Accuracy

Official website/social media (always first step!)
PH local government website
Google Maps/Street Imagery
Facebook
Zomato/Foursquare
Mass-schedules.com
Tripadvisor/Lonely Planet/ https://looloo.com/

Helpful resources to research Pin Accuracy

Official Website/Social Media page with embedded Map
PH local government website (some local government website has its own map with barangay/village boundaries). Since these are official, you do not need to confirm with other sites.
Google Maps, Bing Maps, Street imagery (Google Street View)

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