Demo of Mobile Maps API
TouchMap Teaser | toxicsoftware.com
created 18 November 2008 in links tagged development, iphone and maps.
Another slippymaps widget for the iPhone. I like the way that I’m starting to see an ecosystem of advice and spare parts arriving, finally.
route-me - Google Code
created 18 November 2008 in links tagged development, iphone, maps and openstreetmap.
An iPhone widget that implements the google-maps-style slippymaps in an embeddable way. Nifty.
Panamaps: A Multi-Layered Map - O’Reilly Radar
created 29 August 2008 in links tagged maps.
Physical maps that can contain multiple layers of data. So you can approach the problem from the other direction. It’s just a slightly nasty hack. Clever, though.
http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/08/urban-mapping-panamaps.html
BBC NEWS | UK | Online maps ‘wiping out history’
created 29 August 2008 in links tagged google and maps.
Apparently , “internet maps such as Google and Multimap were good for driving but left out crucial data people need to understand a landscape”. Which is rubbish. Firstly, as blech says, “if the OS had licenced its data to Google Maps, then maybe people would use it”. But mostly I hate this old-fashioned attitude that there’s only one possible view of a map, and that it therefore has to contain everything. As Google say in the article, churches, shops, landmarks, etc, are on the map. They’re just in an information layer that’s not visible by default. The ability to see a custom map with the information relevant to me at a particular moment is great. The interface for displaying this stuff is lacking. But I’d much rather approach the problem from this direction than trying to deal with a single map for all purposes.
Official Google Maps API Blog: Google Maps Without the Scripting
created 22 February 2008 in links tagged google, googlemaps and maps.
Google will serve static maps images. Awesome.
http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2008/02/google-maps-wit...
Google Earth placemarks from Dopplr
