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November 08, 2005
Yahoo Maps links
Yahoo Maps links: Justin Everett-Church showed today how mapping data can be even further separated from its presentation, by incorporating live Yahoo Maps data into a "magic pirate" interface, and an "x-files radar screen" interface... Sho Kuwamoto notes the difference, and Ryan Guill opened it up on digg.com. The Yahoo Maps Application Gallery has a whole bunch of recent additions towards the bottom (with both Flash and JavaScript UIs), and there's also a mailing list on the subject. Merhl Interactive is using it for office display -- reminds me an example I saw last week of Macromedia User Group locations (I can't find link now -- if you know it, please hit comments, thanks!). Michael van Leest has already tweaked some of the source to his liking. Charlene Li found it more useful than prior maps. James Fee and Jibbering weighed in on the "nay" side. NextMUNI uses transponders in San Francisco buses and seems like a good candidate... they've got Java and Google JavaScript interfaces but I'm not sure whether they provide an open data service. If you've got more links that you think people should know about, please drop them in the comments to this entry, thanks!
Posted by John Dowdell at November 8, 2005 04:02 PM
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I wasn't really on the nay side from the flash point of view, I would say nay because the map is just roads - where are the contours, the buildings, the places of interest, the fields, the woods? I would say nay because the licence doesn't allow live position updating.
The flash interface I like.
Posted by: Jim Ley at November 8, 2005 04:38 PM
Sorry, Jim! I knew I had been to jibbering.com before, and saw your name in the comments, but didn't connect the two until just now! (I've got to get an "about" page myself, for this blog... suspect the URL will change again soon too.)
I saw something else interesting this evening, a comment from Paul Colton on Justin's thread. Wouldn't it be something if you could specify such a skin through JavaScript too...?
Posted by: John Dowdell at November 8, 2005 09:05 PM