1. What is Tara Na? What is Bayang Sinilangan?

Tara Na is the section of PiliPinnedAds containing canvas collections separate from the Grand Digital Mural. What distinguishes these canvases from the Grand Digital Mural is the variety of canvas forms on which the community may draw on, and the correlation between these canvases to real places in the Philippines. Bayang Sinilangan is the specific subsection of Tara Na that encompasses the collection of canvases corresponding to maps of the Philippines's eighteen regions and eighty-seven provinces (a figure that includes the eighty-two provinces of the Philippines and also its five independent component cities).

2. How does it work differently from Tara Na: Urban Philippines/the Grand Digital Mural?

Tara Na: Bayang Sinilangan is found in the same part of PiliPinnedAds as Tara Na: Urban Philippines, and also has the same methods for accessing specific canvases: one may either search for the named button of their province/region of choice, or click on the location of the province/region of choice on the displayed map. Once a specific regional or provincial canvas is brought onto screen through this method, then Tara Na: Bayang Sinilangan content becomes directly comparable to the Grand Digital Mural, particularly in its Magnify Mode. The chosen canvas brought to screen will be colored and filled up with community-provided image lots. Clicking on these image lots will fill the information box on the lower left portion of the site with the image lot owner's content of choice, including media, text, and links. What differentiated Bayang Sinilangan from the Grand Digital Mural even further is that given the use of canvases designed to look like geographical maps of the Philippines, the user-submitted and user-placed image lots will also correspond to actual places in the Philippines, instead of just image lots placed across a blank-slate and regularly-shaped canvas.

3. How do I browse through the collection of canvases? How do I find a canvas that will correspond to a specific location I have in mind?

Searching for a specific location and the image lot associated with it requires the knowledge of the location's place on maps of the Philippines, and information regarding the province in which it is found, and/or the region in which this province is located. Browsing then through the collection of canvases can be done through two methods: you may either use the Access Panel box in the upper left portion of Tara Na to choose between the Regional and Provincial canvas categories, then choosing from the named options there to bring forth a canvas correlating to a region or province of your choice, OR by clicking on the geographic location of your chosen region/province on the displayed map. You can also use the filter button in the Province category to narrow down the province options by the country's regions in which they belong. Once a specified canvas has been succesfully brought forth, then you may browse the image lots on it as expected. No search option is available, however image lots may be labelled corresponding to their geographic location, at the image lot owner's discretion.

4. How do I apply to put up my own image on a Bayang Sinilangan canvas?

Designing and placing an image lot on a Bayang Sinilangan canvas is as easy as deciding what you want to put, where you want to put it, and letting the PiliPinnedAds team know as soon as you've decided. Space availability can be checked in the above "Tara Na Bayang Sinilang Canvas Image Lots Sold" tab, while guidelines for designing and setting up the space and its image can be found below in the "Bayang Sinilangan Owning Image Lots and Stewardship" section. In general, the process is as follows:

1. Prepare Image/Drawing to be placed on the canvas of your choice, and prepare associated content such as media, text, and links,
2. Decide on the location of your image lot, and note down the map position, province, and/or region of your intended location.
Should you want the location to be placed as accurately as possible, provide the geographic coordinates of your location's epicenter, as provided by an external mapping app such as GoogleMaps.
3. Communicate these to the PiliPinnedAds team by clicking on the "Purchase Image Lots" button below,
4. Collaborate with the team for any clarifications and necessary adjustments,
5. Process the payment after the image lot has been succesfully woven into the Bayang Sinilangan canvas of your choice.

Of important note is that the transaction units on Bayang Sinilangan are still image lots, which are at a minimum three (3) pixels wide by three (3) pixels tall. These limitations are done for both accessibility and maximized visibility, meaning that even the smallest, most humbly rendered images can be simple to click and striking to the browsing eye. This also means that minimum purchases are PHP450, or PHP50 multiplied by the nine (9) pixels in the smallest possible image lot.

Further specifications, exceptions, and guidelines are available in the associated explanation section below.

5. There is an image or redirected content on the canvases that offends me. How do I raise my concern?

The PiliPinnedAds team is unable to absolutely moderate the content behind the links provided by its community members. Although all links and associated landing pages are validated upon initial integration into the Mural, the owners of the image lots and the links themselves may change the content at their own leisure, and with their own intentions. Should you stumble upon content that is arguably detrimental, unsage, and/or outright offensive to yourself and to other members of the PiliPinnedAds community, you may report which image lot and which link fit these criteria by clicking on the "Comments" button beside the Purchase Image Lots button below.

6. There is a position/location on the map that is currently being occupied by a steward/image that is inaccurate, misleading, or plain inappropriate. How do I raise my concern?

The PiliPinnedAds team takes information accuracy very seriously, particularly when it pertains to mapping data and local services information. You may report any potential inaccuracies to the site team through the same "Comments" button. Content which may be characterized as misleading or inappropriate will also be investigated by the team through the same comments submission system, subject to moderation and filtering standards outlined under guidelines and restrictions for Bayang Sinilangan Stewardship.

Much like the Grand Digital Mural, Bayang Sinilangan hosts collaborative, long-term art-verticement pieces, at its smallest unit composed of clickable pixel images which redirect to any body of content accessible by the links provided by the pixel images' owner. However as opposed to the Grand Digital Mural, Bayang Sinilangan is a collection of canvases based on levels of geopolitical and social territory in the Philippines, allowing for positioned pixels to correspond to real life points on maps of the Philippines. Interacting with the canvases as a browsing community member, or "Curator", or as an Image Lot Owner, or "Steward", comes down to understanding the simple structure and features across the entire collection:

Bayang Sinilangan refers to the Tara Na collection of canvas maps of the Philippines defined by the shapes of Regional and Provincial borders. Each shape is filled with images and image lots that redirect to user-provided content.

Curators who are just browsing the canvas collection may consider the following sequence to make the most out of exploring the collection:
a. Click on Tara Na to access all the maps of Tara Na.
b. Bayang Sinilangan is the category that refers to the maps that showcase the Philippines' Regional and Provincial borders. Within the Access Panel contained in the upper left red outlined box on the webpage, the Regions button and the Provinces button may be clicked to access a menu of buttons corresponding to all the regions or provinces of the Philippines, and a corresponding map of the country with borders corresponding to the actual regional and provincial borders of the country.
c. Clicking on the map within the associated borders of the Region or Province of your choice will yield the same result as clicking on the associated button for the same region or province. Once either a point on the map or a button has been clicked, another map will open with a "zoomed-in" canvas of the region or province selected. Images and drawn figures on this new canvas may then be clicked to reveal its content and intended link within the site's information box found in the lower left, below the access panel filled with buttons. The blue exit button to the upper left of the zoomed canvas may be clicked to return to the larger national map to select another region or province, or browse through other Tara Na categories and parts of the website.

Due to the comparatively much smaller canvas size per Region/Province as opposed to the Grand Digital Mural, and the correspondence of images/image lots to real places (e.g. the image positioned over Baguio City may be shared as "the Baguio City image on the Benguet/CAR Region Canvas") there is no Search for Pixel Lot option in Tara Na to allow for spotlighting and finding specific images. Let us know in the Comments if this search feature is something you'd be interested in seeing and using in the near future :)

Curators who are browsing the Provinces collection of canvases and are interested in narrowing down the options to provinces within specific Regions may take note of the Filter Provinces by Region function available in the Provincial collection:

When selecting the Province collection, the button at the top of the list can be clicked to unfold a filter list labelled with the Philippines' regions. Ticking these options and then clicking the Filter button at the bottom of the list will highlight the ticked regions on the map and limit the visible buttons to only the provinces belonging to the ticked regions. Multiple regions may be selected and filtered. Clicking the Reset Filters button below the Filter button will undim all sections of the map and reveal all provincial buttons again.

For curators interested in becoming stewards and owning and placing their own image lots on any of the canvases, the Purchase Image Lots button contains all the requirements and information to complete the submission, in no more than five minutes should all the necessary details be prepared.

Interested stewards must also take note of and operate in compliance with the following rules, mechanics, and guidelines:

a. Image sizing and claiming pixel space
Just as with the Grand Digital Canvas, every pixel can be assigned its own visuals and unique content redirection, however the minimum space size to begin stewardship is by blocks measuring 3 pixels wide and 3 pixels tall. These 3x3 "lots" are the cheapest option which also ensures each owned image has the appropriate space to be both visually striking, and **easily clickable to curators of Bayang Sinilangan's different canvases.

Beyond initial purchase on the basis of these 3x3 lots, additional pixels may also be bought by purchasing columns when expanding images sideways, and purchasing rows when expanding images vertically. Only fully purchased 3x3 lots may be expanded from by limited rows and columns.

Due to the irregular shapes and sizes of Regional and Provincial borders, and therefore the irregular shapes and sizes of their corresponding canvases, all submitted lots will be evaluated of spacing and any extensions, due to the potential for lots to "crowd" or "squeeze" out other image lots throughout the rest of the canvas, wherein space around and between these large lots become too small to host basic 3x3 pixel lots.

*It is possible to purchase a lot and use only one pixel out of the lot's mini-grid of nine pixels, though this lone pixel will be visually limited and require strained user precision and webpage zooming to click and access its link. Further given PiliPinnedAds' commitment to guaranteeing each image owner has the same baseline visibility to work with for their images, the minimum purchase size will permanently remain these 3x3 lots. Should interested stewards be limited strictly to the PHP50/pixel budget or anywhere below the minimum purchase threshold of PHP450, it is suggested that the cost and usage of the lot be divided among other interested stewards, to make the purchase and design of a single pixel off the mural possible.

**Should interested stewards want their images to also be visible and easily clickable for curators accessing Tara Na through mobile devices, the PiliPinnedAds team would recommend a minimum lot size purchase of 5 pixels wide by 5 pixels long, due to screen size differences.

b. Requirements for image lot positioning and processing
Choosing a position for a potential image lot in Bayang Sinilangan relies on correspondence to real locations on the map. In specifying a specific position based on location correspondence, potential stewards must provide one of the following, with the assistance of an external mapping tool such as Google Maps:

1a. Exact GPS coordinates for the center of the image lot
1b. Approximate landmark which will be used as the center of the image lot

further requirements are as follows:

2. Pixel Image
3. Website to redirect to
4. Screenshot of link safety through free NordVPN Link Checker.
5. Short Description of Website
6. Actual advertisement text and image
7. Optional and additional packages for custom lot code, position and duration in the revolving ads slideshow in Tara Na, posts on PiliPinnedAds social media

c. Following the submission of requirements, a confirmation email will be received by applicant stewards to kickstart the process of evaluating and processing the request.
Should there be any concerns with any of the provided details or request parameters, email correspondence in the same thread as the confirmation email will be sent as soon as possible. Failure to establish communication with the team within 48 hours after a concern email is sent may result in the scrapping of the request.

Prior to the image lot's upload to Grand Digital Mural, a finalization email will be sent containing a draft image of the image lot and its advertisement pop-up on the mural as per the request parameters of the applicant steward. Edits may be requested and will be processed in an appropriate amount of additional time. Should no edits be requested, the applicant steward may confirm the finalized details with an email reply.

Kindly wait at least 24 hours for the upload to complete. Once the upload has successfully been implemented, a final email with all the pertinent details will be received.
Operating hours for processing of submission of requests and requirements is 11am-7pm daily, but submissions may occur at any time.
The Grand Digital Mural and all canvases on the website update at 12nn every day.

d. Following the submission of requirements, a confirmation email will be received by applicant stewards to kickstart the process of evaluating and processing the request.
Should there be any concerns with any of the provided details or request parameters, email correspondence in the same thread as the confirmation email will be sent as soon as possible. Failure to establish communication with the team within 48 hours after a concern email is sent may result in the scrapping of the request.

Prior to the image lot's upload to its respective Bayang Sinilangan canvas, a finalization email will be sent containing a draft image of the image lot and its advertisement pop-up on the mural as per the request parameters of the applicant steward. Edits may be requested and will be processed in an appropriate amount of additional time. Should no edits be requested, the applicant steward may confirm the finalized details with an email reply.

Kindly wait at least 24 hours for the upload to complete. Once the upload has successfully been implemented, a final email with all the pertinent details will be received.
Operating hours for processing of submission of requests and requirements is 11am-7pm daily, but submissions may occur at any time.
All Bayang Sinilangan canvases on the website update no later than 2pm every day.

Guidelines and restrictions
All images and lot purchases will remain available and accessible until, at the very least, December 31, 2026.
Purchased lots are protected from bids to overwrite without the original purchasor's informed consent.

The moderators hold ultimate discretion on allowing or blocking pixel ads from containing overly violent or lewd content. Landings for links may contain such content, however these must be declared in the link description requirement, will be given a disclaimer and content warning in the ad description, and will receive unique lotcodes and other flags to mark their content type.

Image lots purchased may be removed at the discretion of the PiliPinnedAds team should any of the following violations be found and validated:
> If the steward cannot be contacted for 72 hours following the raising of a concern,
> If the steward has lost ownership or intellectual property of their provided content in any way that would raise concerns for its advertisement.
> If the steward has updated the content behind the link after its purchase, to be inconsistent with the approval parameters of the website's moderation team causing other users distress in anyway. Invocation of this clause will only occur upon the raising of said distress and content to the website's moderation team and pending their review and judgement. All other content updates are ignored.

Selling of purchased lots for overwrite into new ads is acceptable, with Pili-Pinned Ads requiring 5% of each sale between new lot owners