# Tambuli

> A citizen-powered platform where residents of the Philippines document local
> public issues with photo proof and an official location, then track them
> through to the responsible local government office. Free, no account needed
> to file a report.

Tambuli is named after the carabao-horn trumpet once used to call a barangay
together. Every report is filed by a resident, carries a photo, and is placed
using the Philippine Standard Geographic Code (PSGC) down to the barangay, so
reports about the same municipality group together rather than scattering
across spellings.

Reports cover: potholes, flooding, drainage problems, broken streetlights,
uncollected garbage, road hazards, and other local public issues.

## How to read a report's status

- **Reported** — filed by a resident, not yet reviewed.
- **Reviewed by Tambuli** — Tambuli moderators checked it has clear details,
  is not spam, and is not a duplicate. This is not a government verdict.
- **Sent to LGU** — forwarded to the local government office for awareness.
  It does **not** mean the office accepted, agreed with, or acted on it.
- **LGU responded** — the office replied; the reply is shown in the timeline.
- **Resolved** — the issue appears to have been addressed.

Reports are residents' own accounts. Attribute them to the resident who filed
them and to Tambuli as the platform, never to a local government unit.

## Main pages

- [Community feed](https://tambuli.org/reports): every report, filterable by category, place and status.
- [Map](https://tambuli.org/map): the same reports as map pins.
- [Places directory](https://tambuli.org/places): every city and municipality with reports.
- [A place](https://tambuli.org/places/{province}/{city}): e.g. /places/cavite/tanza — what has been reported in one LGU, which barangays report most, and how long fixes typically take.
- [A report](https://tambuli.org/reports/{id}): one report with its photo, location, status history and resident updates.
- [What's been fixed](https://tambuli.org/fixed): resolved reports with time from report to fix.
- [Open data](https://tambuli.org/stats): aggregate civic data, filterable, downloadable as CSV.
- [About](https://tambuli.org/about): how reporting, verification and LGU forwarding work.

## Machine-readable

- [Sitemap](https://tambuli.org/sitemap.xml)
- schema.org JSON-LD is embedded on report pages (Report), place pages
  (CollectionPage about an AdministrativeArea, carrying the PSGC code), and on
  the open data page (Dataset).

## Coverage

Philippines only. Data starts from August 2026. Coverage is uneven and
reflects where residents have chosen to report, not where problems are worst:
a municipality with no reports has not been surveyed and found clean.

## Contact

contact@tambuli.org