Presented by Miguel Macariola during the State of the Map Philippines 2013

1. School Mapping
December 14, 2013
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2. OUR VISION
We dream of Filipinos
who passionately love their country
and whose competencies and values
enable them to realize their full potential
and contribute meaningfully to building the nation.
As a learner-centered public institution,
the Department of Education
continuously improves itself
to better serve its stakeholders.
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3. OUR MISSION
To protect and promote the right of every Filipino to quality, equitable,
culture-based, and complete basic education where:
Students learn in a child-friendly, gender-sensitive, safe, and
motivating environment
Teachers facilitate learning and constantly nurture every learner
Administrators and staff, as stewards of the institution, ensure an
enabling and supportive environment for effective learning to
happen.
Family, community, and other stakeholders are actively engaged and
share responsibility for developing life-long learners.
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4. Progress
Plotted educational institutions will become
a critical component in:
• planning process
• definition of programs
• allocation of resources
• other critical decisions

5. MAPAaralan Project! School Mo, I-Pin Mo!
An on-going project of mapping all the schools - public
and private, and including higher educational institutions
and tech-voc institutions.
The objective is to plot all educational institutions that will
become a critical component in planning process,
definition of programs, allocation of resources, and
other critical decisions that have a great impact on
schools.

6. MAPAaralan Project! School Mo, I-Pin Mo!
With all schools in the map and the information in our
schools database, we will be able to understand our
education system better, determine unique and relevant
initiatives, and become more efficient in the roll-out of
programs and projects.

7. How many schools do we have?
DepEd has 46,603 Public Schools which
comprises of:
38,689 Elementary Schools and
7,914 Secondary Schools

8. Mapping
• School locations are gathered using Google Maps
• During the first phase, Division ICT Coordinators were
tasked to create maps per division
• The next phase involved DepEd employees
• Map links are sent to DepEd Central Office for
consolidation

9. Mapping
• Map links are checked for format compliance and KML
file is downloaded.
• KML files are merged using Google Earth and the
loaded to Google Fusion Table for further processing

10. Issues in Using Google Maps
• Satellite images are not clear or have clouds over areas
• Difficulty in establishing internet connection in the area
• Limitations in Google Maps

11. Data Visualization
• Google Fusion Tables
• GeoCommons

12. MAPS

13. Map of Schools with Computers and
Internet

14. Map of Electricity Supply

15. Combined with visualization, these systems can
create powerful and informative datasets

16. Combined with visualization, these systems can
create powerful and informative datasets

17. HOW CAN YOU HELP?
Get in touch with us!

18. Miguel Karlo Macariola
Technical Assistant
Office of the Assistant Secretary and Chief of Staff
Email:
Tel:
Fax:
Website:
miguel.macariola@deped.gov.ph
(632) 633 7228
(632) 636 4876
www.deped.gov.ph
Department of Education
DepEd Complex, Meralco Ave., Pasig City, 1600

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