All posts tagged GeoRSS

Display data on Google Maps with Geo RSS

Display data layer on Google maps with GeoRssGoogle map API is a great tool for displaying maps on your wesbite or blog.

Displaying a single point on the map is pretty straightforward, but if you want to display many points, you need to start working with layers.

In this post you’ll learn to add many points to your map with a GeoRSS layer.

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Watch your back Google – here comes CloudMade Maps

CloudMade map crowdsourcingCrowdsourcing and a flexible and very innovative API, makes CrowdMade a very interesting new player in the map game.

Google, MapQuest, Yahoo and Microsoft has been dominating the online map scene for many years. But now a new and different competitor is entering the map scene.

CloudMade has launched a very interesting online map service, based on the open source map data: OpenStreetMap. In this post we’ll look at the possibilities in the API, and the quality of the map data from OpenStreetMap.

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Bing maps – whats new?

Bing map The Eiffel Tower Paris Birds EyeDuring the last couple of years, the map API from Google has been quite dominant as the prefered map source of many websites.

However there are other alternatives that offers free online maps.

In this post we’ll take a closer look at the possibilities with Bing Maps from Microsoft.

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