Precinct Mapping

Getting people to map has been my passion in the last few years and I'm glad I found a buddy who can translate my idea into something useful for a lot of people. Couple that with a company and friends and community who supports crazy ideas equals a useful app for voters and those who want to volunteer.

I really pushed hard to get back to work in order to run this project again for this year's election and I was deliriously happy when it was featured on Jessica Soho's State of the Nation and ANC Alerts.




Weee! Thanks a heap Dan, Gail, Ryan, Vince, Reymart, Juned, Chelle, Allan, Vanj, JR, Theo, Bernie, Yen, Anne, Richard, Noel, Avel, Doc Remo, Andrew, Clint, Ryann, Ruben, Bino, AJ, Fatz, Yunel and the many, many people who contributed to make this project successful (hope I didn't forget anyone!).

*This post was blogged on a Chromebook! (A borrowed one hehe). 

Precinct Mapping Parties!

I get giggled replies whenever I mention "mapping party" to my friends. They find it absolutely geeky! The past two weeks though there's been quite a number of mapping parties happening nationwide.

Juned took a video of me doing a demo on how to map precicnts. (BTW, thanks so much Krispy Kreme for hosting TechTanod!):



Here's some posts from the mapping parties:

GenSan/Sockksargen Bloggers



Tech Tanod Mapping Party



You might be interested to read about the mapping parties and Google's Find Your Precinct project:

RainCindy: The Success of Google Precinct Mapping
GandaEverSoMuch: Davao Precinct Mapping Party
One Fine Day with Google and Soccksargen Bloggers
Google Mapping Party in Iloilo
Cebu Precincts Mapping Party
Philippine Election 2010 - Find Your Precinct
Something Geeky
Google Maps Precinct Mapping Party in Davao
Tech Tanod Mapping Party (photos)
An Apple a Day
Maks World
Techie.com.ph
GenSanBoy's Weblog
TechPinas
Joell Lapitan
Pinoy Trends
NoypiNation
Museum Stuff
Eirhon.com
MigsMobile.net
Catuira.com
PhilTechnology

In the news/mags:

Philstar.com
Dateline
Spot.ph
Female Network
Manila Bulletin

Google Find Your Precinct (and Help by Mapping Too!)

I didn't realize that's it's been 2 weeks since I last made a post. Sad fez! I have been terribly busy running around  for work. I'm still alive and kicking though!

Here's one project by Google that I thought you guys might be interested in. It's called, "Find Your Precinct" and allows Filipinos to find and map their precincts via Google Map Maker. My good friend, Google engineer Dan Delima, devoted his 20% time for this project (woohoo!!!).

Please help map precincts! To do this just go to http://www.google.com.ph/intl/en/landing/elections2010/. If you have a group that you can bring together for a mapping party please let me know.