Why EZ Maps beat GPS every time
Call me old-fashioned, but how I love a paper map! Laminated or not, a map offers so many specific details about where I’m headed, from elevation to campsites to the width of the road to the locations of airports, hospitals — even windmills! I love the anticipation of reading a map and wondering how the landscape will resemble its contours. On long road trips, I like having a sense of...
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Next in our Line Up
This December before the holiday season we are to release Mindanao and Nueva Ecija
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Mapmaker, mapmaker make me a map
It started during the ’90s, when the Department of Tourism asked Ariel D. Jersey, a budding cartographer, to do a “Best of the Islands” brochure-map for the delegates of the Apec Summit Conference. Jersey did not even have a computer then (these were not as new-fangled then as they are now), so he rented one from a German friend and got down to work, utilizing photos and data from the DoT, and...
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SC: 16 new cities final
MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court (SC) has declared final its ruling on the constitutionality of the laws that converted 16 municipalities into cities as it ordered an entry of judgment that would finally put the issue to rest. Declared as constitutional were Republic Act No. 9389 (Baybay City in Leyte), RA 9390 (Bogo City in Cebu), RA 9391 (Catbalogan City in Samar), RA 9392 (Tandag...
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Samar’s inclusion in travel map to improve tourism
TACLOBAN CITY — The United Tourist Promotions, publisher of EZ Maps, will release for the first time a map showing the major tourist destinations in Samar province. Karina Rosa Tiopes, regional director of the Department of Tourism, said this would boost tourism development in the province. Among the six provinces in Eastern Visayas, only Leyte and Biliran have so far been included in EZ Maps....
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EZ Maps: A summer driving companion
“EZ Maps are ideal guides for foreign and domestic tourists, motorists, or anyone who wants to master the country’s road network like the back of his hand,” said UTP publisher Ariel D. Jersey. This year UTP released the latest editions of EZ Maps for Cavite-Laguna-Batangas, Camarines Sur, Albay, Cavite, Laguna, and Zambales. UTP has also published regional maps of Bicol, Cagayan Valley,...
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Travel made easy with EZ Maps
Exploring the country’s gorgeous hideaways had just become nice and easy with the recent launch of the Philippine Travel Atlas (PTA) Third Edition and the 2010 series of EZ Maps. Published by leading mapmaker United Tourist Promotions (UTP), the PTA has the most comprehensive information on the country’s 16 regions contained in 188 detailed maps. It also has 27,000 entries on provinces,...
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Entrepreneur Philippines Magazine
Getting lost in an unfamiliar area gave this traveler an idea: set up a business that will produce city street maps At one time or another, some of us must have had the irritating experience of getting lost in an unfamiliar street or area. In the case of Ariel Jersey, however, the experience turned out to be a very productive one: it inspired him to come up with detailed city street maps that...
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Philippines, Muslim rebels resume peace talks
The Philippine government and a Muslim separatist group Tuesday resumed peace talks that collapsed 16 months ago, restoring formal efforts to end a decades-long rebellion that has claimed at least 120,000 lives. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front has been fighting for Muslim self-rule for decades in Mindanao, the southern homeland of minority Muslims in the largely Roman Catholic Philippines....
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EZ Map to include EV in its latest brochure
TACLOBAN CITY – The Philippine’s best-selling map will include in their latest brochure all major tourist destinations in Eastern Visayas for the first time, the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) said yesterday.
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