Manila Maps now available on Google Maps!
Philippine Street Map on the Nokia N82 Symbian S60 Platform
After the long wait, Google finally released the updated Manila Map for Google Maps. The recent Google Maps update include detailed street maps of major Philippine cities like Metro Manila, Cebu City, Davao City, and Cagayan de Oro City among others.
Though Google did not give any official press release, the updates were first noticed last Sunday after the collated map data from the Google Mapmaker for Philippines were deployed into the web version of Google Maps and Google Latitude. The deployment for Google Maps Mobile (for Symbian, iPhone, iPod Touch and other mobile platforms) followed later this week.
This action is a major breakthrough for Google Philippines after its first attempt of mapping the country through its Google Map Maker which was launched last year. Google Map Maker, on which the new Philippine street maps were based, is a community application which allows users to contribute map data about their own locality. The launch of the updated Google Maps – Philippine maps is an indication that the Google Map Maker project was a success.
Anybody can now explore the Philippines through their fingertips. GPS users can now use Google Maps for their mobile GPS applications and GPS hardware.
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February 25th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
[...] Manila Maps now available on Google Maps! [...]
February 25th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
wow. this is nice!
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February 25th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
I’m sure this will give Philippine businesses a much-needed boost in the arm. Kudos to Google Philippines!
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March 4th, 2009 at 8:56 am
Brilliant!
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April 15th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
[...] than a month ago, I blogged about Google’s silent deployment of the Philippine street maps in Google Maps for Mobile and Google Maps for web. The new map data were taken from the [...]
April 17th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
just wondering how to download goggle map on my mobile nokia 5800xp… i appreciate any one who help help me. thanks u very much
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June 5th, 2009 at 1:54 am
[...] tool to personally contribute to the building and updating of online map data for the country. The first batch of local Map Maker edits was pushed to Google Maps in March 2009, covering a substantial part of Metro Manila and provinces [...]
July 28th, 2009 at 12:21 am
Matagal na ito sa ibang bansa, hindi ka maliligaw bcoz of google maps and map quest, sa manila meron na ba or ngayon lang ito… bakit laging huli ang Philippines, so don;t say Kudos kasi huli na ang Pinas sa lahat ng bagay. Hindi ka bilib bilib.
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Winston Reply:
July 28th, 2009 at 12:24 am
@shame: ito lang masasabi ko sayo.. isa kang bobo.
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Carlo Reply:
July 28th, 2009 at 12:48 am
@shame, shame on you! Ang sabi nga eh “Google finally released the updated Manila Map for Google Maps. ”
Bobo ka nga! Di naman pinaguusapan dito kung kelan pa sa US to eh. Umintindi ka naman
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July 28th, 2009 at 12:32 am
@shame: SHAME on you..think/research muna before you comment ok!
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August 25th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
makakalibri ka ba dyan sa nokia kong walang gps option cellphone ninyo?
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August 25th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
5 years na akong nag binta GPS dito saudi, ngayon lang nagkaoon dyan sa ng mapa na yan,
pag ng street pilot at NUVI ng Garmin bago nag ng ditalyadong mapa, alam nya ba yon???
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