This is fun! See The Philippines on Wikimapia.org.
Quick, zoom-in and start identifying places in the Philippines!
On WikiMapia, there are “places” – boxes labelled to identify landmarks. In wiki tradition, anybody can add, edit and delete places.My first impulse was to find my home and label “bahay ko!”. Wikimapia exhorts: Label places that are of interest to everybody, not “my house”.
Ah, but I couldn’t resist!
I trust the Wikimapia community will eventually clean things up.
This is a great overlay on Google Maps. It makes the maps easier to use. Last time I used Google maps, I couldn’t figure out where Mandaluyong was (sa luob, that’s where I live).
Next nifty overlay: Philippine street maps like the street maps of the US in Google Maps.
Now, what other uses can we make of Wikimapia and Google Maps?
ka edong
sa mandaluyong, sa luob