Digital Maps of Philippines in my day to day grapics.

Bart Sakwerda
2 min readJan 1, 2019

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When arriving in typhoon-torn Philippines in 2014, I had only crude a4 ink printouts i made quckly in Thailand. Little did i predict right, but the fact the disaster zone wont offer luxury of electricity, printers or internet would hamer organization and navigation was right.

Since then I have accumulated variety of digital maps, shape files and layers useful when visualizing South East asia from various angles.

Examples of base maps

WEATHER & SATTELITE

Screenshot from HIMAWARI8 japanese weather satellite in partnership with NASA/ESA GEOS programme.
Isometric map of the Philippines, Lapu Lapu City from Goolge Maps (WebGL version circa 2015)

MULTIMEDIA

Crude vector map for animation purposed in Adobe After Effects

This type of maps ideally illustrate travel progress (travel destination suggestions).

Fragments from project animating various destinations in the Philppines.

TOURISM MAPS

Map made by Bart Sakwerda in 2015 based on Google Terrain. Crude conditions in a small town with only ink printer.
Vector map of Palawan , for the use in social media and videos.

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