Monday, July 11th, 2016
It is estimated that just half of more than 24 million land parcels in the Philippines have formal land titles. An effort is underway to map the remaining parcels as land titles have been shown to encourage...
Wednesday, April 20th, 2016
KIANGAN, Ifugao, April 19, 2016—The Mines and Geosciences Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources –Cordillera recently presented to the local officials and government office representatives of this town the results of the geohazard mapping...
Sunday, March 13th, 2016
The government of the Philippines has launched a Web-based mobile application to map protected areas. The application is called the Lawin Forest and Biodiversity Protection System (LFBPS) and it provides real-time information according to the Department of...
Monday, February 22nd, 2016
The Philippines National Mapping and Resources Information Authority (NAMRIA) has been working to map the many islands. The official count of 7,107 islands dates back to 1945 by the Gazetteer of the Philippine Islands. NAMRIA puts the...
Thursday, October 15th, 2015
Oct. 14, 2015—Teledyne Optech is pleased to announce we are a sponsor at the Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS) taking place on October 19-23 in Quezon City, the Philippines. At the show we will display our...
Thursday, August 27th, 2015
After a controversial edit or two appeared in Map Maker alongside an uptick in spam, Google decided to halt user submissions while it figured out a way to deal with things. Now the company is starting to...
Thursday, August 27th, 2015
A new version of the Philippine national map is being prepared by the Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino (KWF) that will include and identify contested islands with names that pre-date the Spanish era. The map is being prepared...
Wednesday, August 19th, 2015
The Department of Science and Technology’s (DOST), under its Disaster Risk and Exposure Assessment for Mitigation (DREAM) project, turned over the copy of the province’s digital terrain model, digital surface model and orthophotograph to the Palawan and...
Sunday, July 5th, 2015
Claims by Beijing to the disputed South China Sea will come under international legal scrutiny for the first time this week. While China has officially refused to take part in the case filed by the Philippines at...
Tuesday, May 12th, 2015
As the Philippine military C-130 transport plane made its approach to the country's most precious outpost in the disputed South China Sea on Monday, it flew past a reef which China is quickly turning into an island. At...
