30. märts 2007

MC FlashTile with Google maps

Principally possible, practically not allowed :-(

Test version for demos only!



Flash usage and statistics

Statistics of usage of flash player versions:
http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html

...and comparison with other plug-ins:
http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/

29. märts 2007

Navigation maps for mobile devices

JKL tested some available solutions of GPS/map navigation for mobile devices (smartphone, PDA), here are the results (in estonian)

27. märts 2007

Google Mashups

Some interesting Google mashups:

Detail plannings
on the GM;
Panoramio- Million geolocated photos at Panoramio (article);
Who is leader in worlwide online mapping (article);
Global climate map;
MapDotNet
;

I like this GUI

First example we're all acquaintent with (Atlas from Fresh Logic Studios), updated lately:Also something new - Reuters interactive map of emergencies Alertnet (beta), some interesting features, architecture etc (made using flash).

Something to keep in mind regarding our FT nad TG development :-)

26. märts 2007

Flash Inspiration

Collection of flash-maps that inspired us while starting flash-development.

Flashearth and mr Neave development works at neave.com, idea for FlashTile:

US Flashmaps using maps with high vector graphics
Carto Net collection of flash-maps, flash vs SVG
Geoclip thematic maps QVIS R&D, also UI-s at large
Zillertal Ski panoramas, idea for our so-called "rastersolution"
Zillertal Ski animations

23. märts 2007

Standard for tiling

Open Source Geospatioal Foundation has initiated some work to standardize raster tiling technology as technology for back-drop maps in map applications. Read more...

22. märts 2007

MC FlashTile demo site

FT javascript API demo-site:
http://kaardid.regio.ee/demo/FlashTile/edit/

New version of zoombar (first feature implemented by Jevgeni):
http://www2.regio.ee/ftdemo/

Zoom to mouse pointer while scrolling the mouse
http://www.eoy.ee/atlas/upgrade/indexeng.php

21. märts 2007

Flex on Google Maps

Google Maps Collaboration using Flex, Flash Media Server and Ajax (Updated for Flex 2 GA)

Interesting tool wherein some nice features have been implemented from our roadap:

- Map sharing: Maps are kept in sync (in real time) between users involved in a collaboration session.
- Videoconferencing (Webcam sharing and VOIP): You can share your Webcam and microphone to add video and audio to your collaboration session.
- Whiteboarding: Collaborating users can draw on the map. For example you could draw potential directions, etc. The users’ whiteboards are kept in sync in real time.
- Cursor sharing: When you move your mouse, other users see the movements of your mouse and what you are pointing at.

Look at the demo here (username 'quest' worked well)

Adobe Apollo - new approach to internet maps?

Apollo offers tools for offline applications created using HTML, AJAX ja Flash:

Apollo is a cross-operating system runtime that allows you to install desktop applications that are built using web technologies like HTML, JavaScript, and Flash. The technology allows rich Internet applications to run offline, and could threaten the popularity of programming platforms such as Java and Microsoft .NET, Adobe has said.

PC- World and Adobe Labs articles plus videodemo.

17. märts 2007

Yell kaardirakendus

http://www.yell.com kaardirakendus. Huvitavalt on lahendtud kaardi nn. hübriidvaade, kus kuvatakse põhimaanteed, -tänavad ja jõed ainult kursori "kasti" sees. Aerial ja Hybrid vaate puhul muutub ka zuumbar lühemaks.

Midagi toredat ka e. kuidas tilesid kopeerida- Vajuta kaardiaknas Ctrl+A ja tee Paste näiteks Wordi dokki.

16. märts 2007

Selection of tourism maps

Visitestonia Tourism Agency of Estonia (initial version of new solution), old version here
Map of Tallinn tourism, transportation, trip planner etc
Delfi mapsite address search, ATMs, Gas stations, Internet
Tourism web
Tourism application for municipalities
Estonian Post post offices and letter boxes on the map
Viljandi city map for tourists
Tallinn public transport (old)
Tallinn tourismweb
Via Baltica
Statoil gas stations

FlashTile for Affecto

Good news! Finnish leading GIS company Affecto (former AffectoGenimap) started using our flashtile technology. First projects will be implemented based on MC Light and Medium.

First customer project in live:
http://www.gva.fi/gva/Main.do

...and demo from development process here

15. märts 2007

R&D activities

To sustain the competitive advantage of our products and technology, Reach-U/Regio spends substantial amount of the revenue on R&D.

We participate in number of EU FP6 projects (Motive, Wisecom, QVIZ) and also we’ve got lots of support from Enterprise Estonia foundation to develop new technologies (Gisser, Logisme, others). Our team is responsible for two of them:

GISSER
The aim of GISSER is to work out GIS server of new era and user interfaces for mobile phones and web with high usability and animation support. Animated may be layers on the map and map handling but also the map itself (streaming river). For achieving this aim we cooperate with scientists at many disciplines like psychologists, geographers, computer scientists and design students.

Contact riho@regio.ee for futher discussions (cooperation proposals etc).

QVIZ
The aim of QVIZ is to give better visualization tools for cultural heritage institutions and resources like archives, museums etc. Visualizing time-spatial connections between historical events on the map offer better access tools for scientists as well as for for wider population.

Ask information kalev@regio.ee

Estonian Breeding Bird Atlas

New version of Estonian Breeding Bird Atlas based on MapCat Medium and flashtile technology. Nowadays birdwatch and data collecting is based on 5x5 km UTM squares but as 10x10 had been used before 2003 then follow-up project is planned before 2010 (end of the project). The aim of this project is to make those data comparable (generalization of data collected based on 5x5 will be done). Today only data collected 2003 and later is published.

Direct link to english version here

14. märts 2007

L-Est to WGS and vice versa

An old tool, useful for keeping in mind our future defelopment work, but irreplaceable for GPS users etc already today:

http://kaardid.regio.ee/coords/

FlashTile live

LIVE DEMOS
Bird Atlas new version of Bird Atlas based on FlashTile, direct link to english version here
County of Põlva map solution for web-sites of municipalities (public map and admin-tools)
Visitestonia Tourism Agency of Estonia (initial release)
Trees with Christ
Map of manors

Additionally ASP service of Affecto, LBS applications FriendFinder, Childfinder and Monitor, applications for software of logistics AVL, Cargo Monitor.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION
FlashTile demo site for FT javascript API
Bird Atlas 10x10 version for administrator
MonitorMexico our first FlashTile demo having animation (see also tester.regio.ee/mo)
Demo version of municipality-package:
- public site kaart1.regio.ee/demo/pak/
- tool for administrator kaart1.regio.ee/demo/pak/admin

Google links to Maps24

Due to the new cooperation between Google, Inc, and Mapsolute GmbH, maker of the unique mapping portal Map24.com, it is now possible to search for city maps in all European Google search engines. If you enter a city name into Google.co.uk, the first result list entry is a special link to Map24.com that brings up the corresponding city map. On the result page, for sure, the full set of the rich Map24 options is available to the users.

http://www.google.co.uk

London at Maps24
London at Google
London at Michelin

Ask who we are :-)

Riho Plado,
Team leader
+372 7 387 304
riho at regio.ee

Tanel Viin,
Sales and ASP services
+372 7 387 442
tanel at regio.ee

Kalev Koppel,
Software development, R&D activities
+372 387 313
kalev at regio.ee

12. märts 2007

E-turundusest

Tekkis väike mõttevahetus blogimisest ja e-suhtlusest üldse,
abiks suhtumise kujundamisel mõned Kalevi leitud viited:

E-Turunduse konverentsi ettekanded
http://www.altex.ee/e-turundus-arhiiv

Sealhulgas:
Ajaveebinduse Skype näitel

MapCat Pro

Demo site for MapCat PRO SDK

Ortophotos of Pärnu have been used as a base map for demo from Regio map server. Editable layers are houses and streets, demo icludes most of client side functionalities exept description of javascript API.

HeyWhatsThat goes global

A visibility demo for Haanja.

11. märts 2007

EMT oma andmeuuenduse liides

Kunagi aastaid tagasi tegi Rainer EMT-ile Mynearest baasile on-line andmete uuendamise liidese. See tundub tänini töötavat http://lbs.emt.ee/LBData/ aadressil (kasutajanimi: regio, parooli ei julge siia panna :). Vt põhilehtede screenshotid comments alt, et funktsionaalsusest aimu saada. Liides on eelkõige tekstipõhine, ja kaardile saab detailide juurest vaid vaatamiseks.

Asi oligi mõeldud vanade objektide kustutamiseks ja nimede/kirjelduste parandamiseks, mitte niiväga kaardil uute andmete lisamiseks. Viimane on muide samas võimalik, kuid asukoht käib geokodeerimisega: pärast tekstiandmete (sh aadress) sisestust vajutad nupule "geokodeeri" ja ta annab aadressile automaatselt leitud vasted, millest saab siis õige valida. Ei mingit kaardil zoomimist ega klikkimist.

10. märts 2007

VK admin-vahendid (eelajalooline stuff)

http://kaardid.regio.ee/map/mapwindow.phtml demokeskkond kaaripäringu testimiseks
http://kaardid.regio.ee/admin VK kliendi admin-keskkond, statistika
http://kaardid.regio.ee/mmaadmin VK projektijuhi töövahend kasutaja lisamiseks, statistika

Vaja kasutajatunnuseid, mingi ime läbi on need ka täitsa olemas :-)

GCAdmin e geokodeerimise töövahendid

Unustusehõlmas rakendused
http://kaardid.regio.ee/EestiAadressid/index.php
http://kaardid.regio.ee/latadmin/index.php
Töötav stuff
http://kaardid.regio.ee/gcadmin/
http://kaardid.regio.ee/gcadmin/ergo
http://kaardid.regio.ee/gcadmin/energia
http://tester.regio.ee/tiru/gcadmin_codew/
http://kaardid.regio.ee/kprojekt


Kõik vajavad ligipääsuks U/P (saab VK kuudist vajadusel :)

About us

Regio/Reach-U is leading software company in Baltics with excellent experience in GIS and understanding of GIS related content (maps and GIS databases). We are proud to have global partnership agreement with Ericsson for reselling LBS solutions and middleware worldwide.

Regio/Reach-U has customers for our GIS software products in Estonia, Finland and Sweden, but also in Slovakia, Romania, Marocco, United Arabic Emirates, Saudi-Arabia, India, Mexico, Ukraina. Our main customers are mobile operators worldwide and their clients using our software but also enterprises maintaining different distribution networks (logistics) and different GIS registrars in forestry, fields and military sector.

Our web based GIS software is used by all main internet portals in Baltics and sold as SDK (Software Development Kit) for bigger GIS companies in Finland (Affecto, Tietoenator).

Regio/Reach-U is also partner of Navteq http://www.navteq.com/ regarding collecting and maintaining navigation GIS database for Baltics, data provider for Maporama http://www.maporama.com/ services and Michelin www.michelin.com maps.

Google kasutustingimused

Tanel, plz uuenda seda blogist leitud Google-Yahoo-jt hinnavõrdlusega vendadelt, kes neid kommertseesmärgil kasutavad.

Üldised tingimused:
http://maps.google.com/terms_of_service.html

Google'i teenused on tehtud kättesaadavaks ainult teie isiklikuks ja mitteäriliseks kasutuseks. Te ei tohi kasutada Google'i teenuseid toote või teenuse müümiseks või oma veebisaidile suunduva liikluse suurendamiseks ärilisel eesmärgil, näiteks müügi reklaamiks. Te ei tohi võtta Google'i otsingu tulemusi ning neid ümber kujundada ja kuvada või peegeldada Google'i kodulehte või tulemuste lehekülgi oma veebisaidil. Te ei tohi teha metaotsingut üle Google'i. Kui soovite kasutada Google'i teenuseid ärilisel otstarbel, peate eelnevalt Google'iga sellekohase lepingu sõlmima. Lisateabe saamiseks võtke palun meiega ühendust.

1001 salajast kalastuskohta jmt :-)

http://www.programmableweb.com/api/GoogleMaps/mashups

Ideede leiunurk, milleks kõigeks võivad kasutajad tahta kasutada ka meie kaarte ja API-t.

GeoRSS kasutamise näiteid

What is starting to play in radio right now http://www.yes.com/yesnation.swf
Kunagi ka ErkiS saatsis selle lingi listi http://www.mappedup.com/

9. märts 2007

Põnevaid kaardilahendeid maailmast

Pasteerin siia lihtsalt Taneli lingikogust viited, selle leiunurgaga tuleb aga tõsisemalt tegeleda.

Google
Geowiki e Wikimapia
GooglemapsMania sait ja lingikogu
http://tags.lifehacker.com/software/maps/
http://blog.programmableweb.com/category/mapping/
http://radar.oreilly.com/tag/geo

http://www.tinymap.net/ väga äge samas ka lihtne UI objektide lisamiseks etc
http://www.heywhatsthat.com/ kliki nupul show profile ja siis kaardil !
http://www.asciimaps.com/ ka nii saab teha
http://gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/03/swiss_alps_jet_fight.html Teedule :)

Yahoo maps http://maps.yahoo.com/beta/#mvt=m&trf=0&lon=24.750309&lat=59.429102&mag=6 Yahoo mapsis on realiseeritud funktioon paremklikiga (drive from- drive to). Muud vidinad- funktisoonid ala drag drop directions jt kohta on flässi animatsioonid: http://maps.yahoo.com/flash/features

GeoURL

Erki leid:

Selline asi siis arendamisel, et asukohti saaks linkida veebibrauserites. Sarnaselt „mailto:” lingiga brauserites hakkaks toiminuma „geo:” link, mis avab sinu lemmikkaardirakenduse ja näitab soovitud asukohta

http://geouri.org/

Juba on ka välja antud esimene selline laiendus Firefox’le ning vaikimisi suunatakse google map’le.

Näiteks Tallinnasse saaks suunata nii:

geo:59.437782,24.754697

HTML’s 59.437782,24.754697 '>geo:59.437782,24.754697

GIS baastarkvara vs vabavara

Jutt Esri võimekusest ja võimetusest internetiGIS vallas, blog kust leiab mõndagi huvitavat:
Are we begining to see a shift away from ESRI Server backend to Open Source solutions?

Vt ka artikkel ArcGis bugidest

Regio.ee kaardi kasutajate sh pirakasutajate leidmine

Erki soovitus googeldamiseks oli:
http://www.google.ee/search?q=link:http://www.regio.ee/%3Fop%3Dbody%26id%3D24&hl=et&start=10&sa=N

Veel ideid?

Neti.ee kasutusstatistika

http://www.neti.ee/info/top100.html

Kõigume seal 50-60 lainel, teeme ära naistelehele, flirt.ee-le ja TÜ veebisaidile, samas Maaja, ETV ja TV3 käest saame napilt tappa :-)

Tiling using AJAX

Regio AJAX component
Winter-of-code component
Nutiteq demo

MapCat Light rakendused EFTA

Eesti Post postkontorite ja postkastide asukohad kaardil
Tallinna veeb sõiduplaneerija, ametiasutused, turism, operatiivinfo
Delfi kaardipaik aadressotsing, tanklad, pangaautomaadid jpm
Regio kodulehe kaart linkimise võimalusega
Telemedia ettevõtete asukohad kaardil, asukohaotsing jms
Infopluss aadressotsing, ettevõtete asukohad kaardil
www.city24, www.kv.ee ja www.4seina.ee kinnisvaraportaalid
Viljandi linna kaart
Naabrivalve kaart
Tallinna transpordikaart (vana)
Tallinna turismikaart
Tallinna jäätmekaart vt jäätmekaart
Knnisvaranet

Rasterlahendid
Via Baltica
Võru linna kaart

Halinga valla kaart
Mäetaguse vald
Märjamaa vald
Tartumaa investeeringute kaart
Hääletusvõistluse kaardirakendus
www.jarva.ee kaardilahendid (kõik omavalitsused)
Eestimaa raster (üldine) ja asulaotsing
Statoili jaamade kaart
Erel kinnisvaraobjektid Tallinna kesklinnas
Linnuatlas
jpm

MapCat Medium rakendused EFTA (enne FT aega :-)

Raplamaa
http://www.raplamv.ee/veebikaart/index2.php?lang=0
http://www.raplamv.ee/veebikaart/index2.php?lang=1 inglise keeles
Karula rahvuspark
http://www.karularahvuspark.ee/wwwmap/index2.php?lang=0
http://www.karularahvuspark.ee/wwwmap/index2.php?lang=1 i.k.
PRIA
http://kaardid.regio.ee/pria/index2.php?lang=0
Koolide kaardirakendus
http://kaardid.regio.ee/koolid/
Kuressaare
http://www.kuressaare.ee/mapcat/index2.php?lang=0
http://www.kuressaare.ee/mapcat/index2.php?lang=1
Keskkonnaministeeriumi BTv rakendus (siit kõik algas)
http://tester.regio.ee/kkmin/index2.php
http://tester.regio.ee/kkmin/liigid/index.php?keel=0

EOY linnuatlas

Linnuatlase veebirakendus on töövahend ornitoloogidele vaatlusruutude vailkuks ning vaatlustulemuste edastamiseks projekti koordinaatorile. Linnuatlase upgrade FlashTile'l

Põlvamaa veebikaart

Põlvamaa veebikaart

Veebikaardi blogist

Selllesse blogisse kogume näiteid Regio veebikaardi meeskonna poolt tehtud töödest ja huvitavaid lahendusi laiast maailmast. Miks me seda teeme? Sellepärast, et jagada infot meie veebikaardi rakenduste arengute kohta ning tutvustada, mida uut on Google, Yahoo jt. tegijate kaardilahendustes.

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