I met Eugene Villar at iBlog3. He’s one cool guy. After all, he created his own content management system that powers his blog, vaes9, and is now leveraging the power of Google Earth to drive Vista Pinas.
Another feather in his cap is Lakbayan. Lakbayan notes down the places in the Philippines where you had passed through/visited/lived, and then gives you a grade.
(How much of the Philippines have you visited? Find out at Lakbayan.)
Go give it a try!
Now, I am waiting for the nitty-gritty details on how he came up with this project (like how the grade is computed).
My suggestion at this point is not really technical, but I guess to make the grade more representative of one’s travels, all the cities/towns of a province should be listed. I am not sure if Alcala, Pangasinan is east or west Pangasinan. And as Eugene himself has said, “just because you’ve been to Boracay doesn’t really mean that you’ve “seen” Aklan, right?” Since I had been in La Trinidad in Benguet, I just can’t select Benguet.
Great work, Eugene!
Hi Arbet! Yeah, I’ll make a post about the scoring system and technical details within the week. 🙂
The problem with going down to the town/city level is that the list would become too long. At that point, I’m better off making a full-fledged travel website. Hehehe. (I’m actually thinking of developing one.) 🙂
Hi Eugene. You can always break down the data input in several pages, just to get a better representation. Or you can do a mini and expanded version, perhaps.
Or, to make things harder, ask the user exactly where he/she had been, instead of clicking. He he.
Looking forward to that post. And to that travel Web site na rin, he he.