The company said the Philippines is "unique" and a challenge for Google Map Maker users, owing to the more than 7,000 islands found in the country.

Alerts for a potential tsunami were issued for coastlines in North America, Hawaii, Russia and Japan after a powerful ...

Leyte Province is in green. ILLUSTRATION: IRRI The maps, based on radar images processed by software company sarmap in the days after the typhoon, show the northeast part of hard-hit Leyte province.

It is this map that made me wonder how an accurate representation of the Philippine shape was possible in 1734, long before they had balloons, satellite imaging, Google Earth, Google Maps, and Waze.

All times on the map are Philippine time. The New York Times A moderately strong, 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck in the Philippines on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

My second regret was declining a six-month grant to dig up old maps of the Philippines from libraries, archives, and museums abroad to be used against China’s “historical claims” to the Spratlys and ...

Scientists help the Philippines, one of the world’s most disaster-prone nations, better prepare for natural calamities through the use of technology to simulate maps that forecast risk-prone areas.

While a map may seem to be a quiet visual representation, it speaks loudly of a lot of things: math, science, history, culture, even the arts.

Thanks to a partnership with The Catlin Seaview Survey, Google Maps now displays StreetView-ish images of the Great Barrier Reef and popular underwater spots around Hawaii and the Philippines ...