Pagmamapa sa Kapuluan: Map Stories #3 -- this bird has flown

Bird maps are like geovisualised sound bites: a map image opens up new sonic vistas that further expand bird research and exploration. 

Find out more about bird mappings in the Philippines. Visit our website Geonarratives.PH to read more about the Pagmamapa sa Kapuluan project. This UP Diliman OICA-funded project solicits map outputs of Geography students, faculty, staff and alumni as a way to show various mapping undertakings and expand the potential of mapmaking practices beyond technology. This is in co-sponsorship with the UP Department of Geography.

Map: screen grabbed from JM Villasper's FB page

This Pagmamapa sa Kapuluan is a project of the UP Department of Geography and funded by UP Diliman OICA in observance of the geography's 40th anniversary as an academic discipline in the country. This batch of maps is also in line with SDG #15 (Life on Land) of the United Nations.

If you have map stories, we also welcome them and will feature it/them under the Geonarratives section of our website. For this endeavor, you do not need to be affiliated to geography to join. You can submit word maps to tell stories of your encounter with particular spaces in UP campus. You can likewise send sensory maps like smellscape, sonic maps, others. Visit our page and click the "Do you have a map story?" button to submit your storymaps. 

Pagmamapa sa Kapuluan: Map Stories #1 -- the spooky

Take a look at our first batch of maps in the Geonarratives Mapping website. 

https://geonarratives.ph/2023/11/06/map-stories-the-spooky/

Excerpt from the Geonarratives.PH site 

"So how do we depict the uncanny, the unseen, the not-quite-there? Based on cartographic data gathered from the Geography 1 classes of Fernand Francis Hermoso, haunted spaces come to life with stories that fascinate precisely because they live in the realm of  liminality. For academic year 2016-2017, Hermoso, an assistant professor at the UP Department of Geography challenged his students to capture the spooky and the haunted in UP campus. Data were gathered and obtained from written accounts in books, stories emanating from social media, and interviews of security guards and maintenance personnel who were stationed in these buildings. The triangulation of data was necessary to validate stories told from the ground and engender claims of spectral sightings in buildings.

The data were interpreted using kernel density mapping to create a hotspot or heat map, and which by extension also doubles as a spectral presence."