I Can See My Church From Here!
Jul 03 2005 Sun
2:48 pm PHT
In a reference to the oft-mentioned phrase, “I can see my house from here!” I’d like to show you the Google Maps Satellite view of the Our Lady of Fatima Parish in Philamlife Village, where my family goes to mass every Sunday. (See also my earlier post on Google Maps Satellite view).
Google recently added hi-resolution satellite/aerial images of many places around the world, not anymore just Canada and the United States. Unfortunately, they only have very few areas of the Philippines in high-resolution, namely, the vicinity of Clark Air Base in Pampanga, parts of Bulacan, and northern Cavite. The rest of the country only have what I estimate is 30 meter/pixel resolution, not the 2 feet/pixel images in the areas above.
For additional coolness factor, here’s the aerial image of the hotel we stayed at in Clark during my company’s sportsfest.. To the west and a bit to the south is the Casino Filipino where I lost the 300 pesos.
The hi-res imagery got the easternmost portions of Las Piñas and as you can see from my first link, it barely got the Fatima Parish. I wonder if Jerome can see his house from here since he lives in Philamlife Village?
Comments
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On 1:09 p.m., 5 Jul 2005, ramil wrote:
kita yung house namin sa bulacan! haha.
i’ll try to post it later.
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On 12:53 a.m., 14 Dec 2005, Migs wrote:
Nice that you could identify something in the Northern Cavite/Las Pinas area.
How do you make the maps in Wikipedia? Do you know the latitude/longitude of the Manila locations? I’d like to overlay a map like that onto the G Maps API.
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On 11:53 a.m., 15 Dec 2005, seav wrote:
Hey, the great Migs Paraz visits my blog.
About my Wikipedia maps, I just made them using a pixel-based photo-editing program (I don’t have any GIS applications). Sadly, I don’t have any list of coordinates for locations in Manila.
There are a lot of GIS companies in the Philippines. I think one can maybe license their map data and display it using a Google Maps-like interface.
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On 5:10 p.m., 17 Dec 2005, Migs wrote:
Yes I hope the likes of www.findme.com.ph pick it up.
But, writing a new G Maps AJAX interface is not simple. Maybe they could sell their data to Google—but that’s only worth something to the G if they could get some ad traffic from it.
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