The development in the mapping world is very fast. Both Microsoft and Google has Street level imagery (Street View and Street Side) but navigating this content can be a little difficult.
However Microsoft has now invented a new navigation concept – Street Slide
Crowdsourcing 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.
One of the most interesting new features in HTML 5, is the possibility automatically position the users browser, based on GeoLocation.
The principle of trying to detect the users location isn’t new. Many websites has been using IP addresses to identify where the users are located, however these IP addresses often belongs to the users ISP, which isn’t necessary very accurate.
In this post you’ll learn a few basics on GeoLocation with HTML5, and see an example on how accurate the new GeoLocation is.
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There can be numerous of situations where a map can be very useful to display on your website or blog.
The map can be obtained as a static image from a stock photo library, or you can use one of the free map services on the internet. Since we’re big fans of scalable solutions that can be automated, we’ll focus on the free static map services on the Internet.
In this post we’ll learn you to use the static map api from Google.
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One of the best ways of improving your productivity, is to use prebuilt components like jQuery for adding advanced functionality to your website, instead of reinventing the wheel yourself.
In this post you’ll see some of the most interresting jQuery plugins from march 2010.
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