Philippine Heritage Homes: The Making

Private User, Vidda Chan: I kicked off the page with those that I could find good materials on. But these sites are good places to start:
http://heritageconservation.wordpress.com/
http://www.philippineheritage.com/

I'll start reading and familiarizing myself with G maps and the other site once I get home Mona.

Great job on the Philippine Heritage Homes project.

G map of my city is not so accurate. But it will do with this project.

Try putting in latitude and longitude coordinates and pulling in from other map services for better accuracy?

Erica Howton, if only we knew the coordinates. there's a whole bunch of houses whose street addresses have changed and i can't even find them. i sent an email to the heritage conservation society about maps.

<sends virtual GPS devices to Heritage Homes of The Philippines>

You need to get the foot soldiers out!

Agree! :) Liplip's covering Misamis Oriental and I can cover Manila and Southern Luzon. So much more ground to cover. :)

Wish I were in Mindanao to cover that area. My birthplace is actually Dipolog, sister city to Dapitan... Jose Rizal's place of exile. Up till the last five years or so, it hadn't changed much... still the sleepy little beach town, and Jose Rizal National Park still houses replicas of the home and huts where his patients would rest after he doctored them. Many of the ancentral homes are still there and lived in. Dapitan should really be designated a National Historical site.

Dapitan is in my bucket list! I hear it is lovely there.

I believe it is an NHI-protected site.

So happy to hear that it is a designated NHI protected site. So many of the old style homes there. Last time I was there (four years ago), one of the homes was being renovated to become a museum. Unfortunately, it was still in the process so I saw only a little bit. It is lovely there. I brought my daughter in law who'd never been to Mindanao but was well traveled in Luzon and other parts of the world. She kept remarking "how green everything is." Should you ever go, let me know. I stil have family there, in both Dipolog and Dapitan.