I found OpenStreetMap – project aiming to collect geographical data (like city plans) and provide them on CC license. It is volunteer project, gathering data via GPS log files upload. It looks like area coverage is mainly in UK, but as service will grow, it will cover much more areas. It is free service, and …
Monthly Archives: February 2007
Web2.0 versus old-web
In my daily dose of feeds I have found this video, which in nice pictures describes IMO most important differences between old-fashioned web of hypertext and new shiny Web2.0. The key is we are interacting with web differently. And Time’s Person of the Year 2006 is no accident.
How to create shapes for Google Maps?
I’m using Google Maps API and currently need to draw some shapes on it. Of course GPolygon is right for me, but I need data for it. Like countries shapes. So I wrote simple tool in JavaScript to draw shape on map, and get corresponding data – array with vertexes latitude and longitude. As for …
GLog – another reason to use Google Maps API
I have discovered new class in Google Maps API called GLog. And this is another reason to use Google Maps API. As its name suggest it can be used to logging from Your JavaScript application. It provides three methods for writing in log window. write, writeUrl, writeHtml write text, URL or HTML in log window. …
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