The Geo-Locator is a Geographic Information System (GIS) facility that could help you in locating areas such as towns, provinces, lakes, mountains and rivers in the Philippines. It uses the topographic map 1:250,000 scale based on aerial photography taken during the period of 1947-1953.

The geographical information that you gather here may be old, but they can still be used as a reference since lakes, mountains and rivers are geographical features that are basically permanent. For the towns and provinces, the names can change through time, or new towns and provinces are named, but their locations would be more likely unchanged.

Note: The GeoLocator is not a road or street map.

Instructions:

1. Type an area: a province, a town, an island, a river, a lake or a mountain, in the search location box and always click the go button. If there is a record of your search, it will be highlighted in red and a pop-up window will appear. If there is no record, nothing will happen and no window will pop-up.
2. The information displayed in the pop-up window will only show two information at most: the name of the searched location and the province where it is located. If you want to view more information, you have to select the Info Tool in the toolbox and click it to the shaded or selected area on the map.
3. Use the Zoom In tool or the Zoom Box tool if you want to see more details of your location searched. At separate zoom levels, more information will be viewed on the map such as roads with their road types, contour lines showing the elevation or height of the area, rivers and their names, mountains and volcanos.
   
   Please refer to the color coding to your left to determine what geographical feature that the colors you see on the map represents for.
4. If you want to view peripheral areas, use either the Zoom Out tool or the Pan tool by just clicking to an area or clicking and dragging your mouse to an area, respectively.
5. If you want to return to the whole map of the Philippines, just click on the Zoom to Fit tool in the toolbox.
   
   You can always try another search location or explore the map by just using any of the tools in the toolbox.