You can now get to see actual buildings in selected areas of Panay Island through Google Earth, which has recently released high-resolution images of the island. Google Earth is a free virtual globe application, where you can tour around the world and see satellite images of places. About 2 days ago, Google Earth released the hi-res images for Iloilo City, Guimaras (Jordan, Sibunag, San Lorenzo), Aklan (Kalibo), Antique (Pandan, Hamtik, Sibalom, San Jose), and also Negros Occidetnal (Moises de Padilla, Isabela, Murcia and La Carlota). Having high-resolution images mean that you can see buildings, houses, and even cars on the road.
Patches of high-resolution images of Western Visayas on Google Earth
Here’s the Google Earth satellite image, some are a bit outdated since they were taken a few years ago.
Iloilo City
Jordan, Sibunag, San Lorenzo in Guimaras
Hamtik, Sibalom, and some parts of San Jose in Antique
Pandan in Antique
Moises de Padilla and Isabela in Negros Occidental
Some parts of Murcia and La Carlota in Negros Occidental
More in depth pictures of hi-res Google Earth satellite images coming up in a photo series.
The power of sending Google too much mail on asking for them the hi-res images of Iloilo. Bwahahaha
Great post. I can’t wait for google to add more Filipino cities to Google Maps. You can already look up Manila.
I am soon going to visit Iloilo City and the Visayas in order to update the Visayas section of the Lonely Planet guide. If you or any of your readers have any “must sees” for the Visayas please let me know. You can add suggestions to the comments section this post here. Look forward to hearing from you!
All I can say is AWESOME. Cheers! : )
unfair,.. it covers much of Antique and very little of Iloilo… There might be thousand upon thousands of Internet users a in Anqitue compare to Iloilo…?