Apr
04
2012
Philippine Google Map Maker Summit 2012
Philippines will hold three local conferences about Google Map Maker this April 2012, after the successful Google Map Maker Workshop which was held in Makati City last March. The local Google Map Maker Summits will be held at the cities of Bacolod City, Baguio City, and General Santos City respectively.
Permanent link to this article: http://habagatcentral.com/2012/04/04/philippines-to-host-local-google-map-maker-summits/
Apr
26
2011
Google Mapmaker
Ever since I was a kid, I held fascination over maps. I buy maps—err; I let my parents buy me some maps. From the cheapest school maps to book atlases perhaps. Geography is my favourite subject in school. This is where you get to memorize the provinces of the Philippines and its capitals, per region, their culture and history. I sleep with the old Manila book maps back in the 1990s. I bring them at school. Maps have been my obsession-seeing places, imagining places and even memorizing the way how to get there. In other words, GPS has been programmed already since the 1990s, hehe!
Maps have given me comfort. It is one way to see the world—for me. Atlases at least gave me some glimpse. Yet it’s not enough. Postcard perfect photos, very shallow write-up, outdated facts and not so detailed maps were the limitations of these. Internet back then was still very limited and expensive—and was turtle slow if we compare it on today’s standards. So, I just go to the library and browse every atlas or any other books relating to culture, history and geography of the places. I’m not also that rich to go to Disneyland or Paris or NY…these were my humble flying carpets.
Permanent link to this article: http://habagatcentral.com/2011/04/26/draw-explore-and-serve-the-people-mapping-the-philippines-and-i/
Dec
18
2009
Mapping the world was a challenge to most of the explorers, but Google has encouraged young people to use technology for a cause. Google has announced the first Google Map Maker Global Competition. The contest is for everyone interested in mapping their localities, cities, campuses and a lot more. This has encourage civic volunteerism amongst the tech-savvy young people to help humanitarian organizations such as UNICEF in creating better guides.
Permanent link to this article: http://habagatcentral.com/2009/12/18/googles-global-mapping-competition-launched/
Mar
13
2009
Since its launch last October 2008 Google Mapmaker, one of the latest products from the search engine giant Google, has made significant progress thanks to the community Filipino map-makers or shall we say “cartographers” who shared their local knowledge and information necessary for updating Philippines’ map database over in this popular website.
Permanent link to this article: http://habagatcentral.com/2009/03/13/google-updates-mapmaker-in-the-philippines/
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