INQUIRER.net adds Google Earth map, surveys to election site

TO FURTHER enhance our online coverage of the upcoming Philippine elections in May, we've beefed up our Eleksyon 2007 site by adding a Google Earth map and a survey section. The Eleks yon 2007 Google Earth map allows you to click on any marker on the Philippi ne map to see the number of voters per province, broken down by municipality an d city. The figures are as of the 2004 elections. Meanwhile, the Survey Says section offers comparative charts based on the Social Weather Stations and Pulse Asia surveys to allow readers to keep track of the survey rankings of candidates over the course of the campaign. The Eleksyon 2007 Google Earth map is one of the pet projects of INQUIRER.net e ditor in chief JV Rufino and we're proud of the effort our tech team poured int o this site feature, which they've been working on in stealth mode in addition to a long list of projects. If you knew just how few people we have in our tech team (or the whole INQUIRER .net team, for that matter) and take into account the number of innovations we' ve introduced in less than two months, you'll understand why we're so proud of our multitasking employees. Imagine what we could do with more people :)