Mapsite for kids

New map application for the Estonian most popular kids' website Lastekas.ee is live. Introducing innovations like typing in capital letters, interface and POI-s with sound assistance and special design, it is one of few online maps designed specially for children. Try it here.

Google Map Maker

Google unveiled Google Map Maker, a product that allows users to contribute and edit map data for regions around the world. More from Lat Long Blog, CNet, GOS

Some experiments with GM

Some cool measuring and polylines features made on GM API. Links: 1 and 2

Outdoors touch-screen webmap

An interactive touch-screen webmap that is placed outdoors and connects to internet wirelessly, but not an iPhone.

Põlvamaa talurahvamuuseum (an open air museum reminding how peasants lived in old times) gets an infokiosk with Regio's webmap. The map based on our KOV project will serve useful information about places to visit around the museum to tourists visiting museums info-center.


Info-kiosk hardware was provided by ERD Estonia OÜ

Google Earth Plug-in Puts Google Earth in Your Browser

Windows only: The freeware Google Earth plug-in integrates Google Earth with your web browser, embedding the 3-D glory of Earth in Firefox or Internet Explorer. The results, which you can see in the video above, are impressive. There isn't a ton of Google Earth plug-in integration on the web yet, but check out the samples to understand the possibilities, like switching between Google Maps and Earth on-the-fly. The Google Earth plug-in is Windows only, supports Firefox and Internet Explorer.

Google Earth API [Google Code via Google Blogoscoped]

Wikipedia Added to Google Maps

In what is proving to be another busy day for Google, Wikipedia articles have been added to Google Maps. The new Wikipedia tags can be turned on via a 'More' button that has been added to the top right hand corner of the map.



When the Wikipedia tick box is selected small 'W' tags appear on the map where Wikipedia articles are available. Clicking on the 'W' tag will open an information window containing the Wikipedia article.

Panoramio photos can also be turned on via the same 'More' button. The photos option however feels a little superfluous considering Panoramio photos were added last week and can also be turned on in the left-hand panel. Intriguingly the photos turned on by the 'More' button contain a Panoramio logo whilst the ones accessed by the left-hand side panel don't, even though both sets of photos are served by Panoramio.

Via Googlemapsmania

Mapping orienteering routes

RouteGadget is web utility for drawing and comparing orienteering routes. It is Java applet running on browser and Perl scripts running on server that can be installed on any Unix, Linux, Windows server or used locally on PC / laptop. Free, no quarantees, support etc. Made by volunteer :-)

Hansapank Xdream demo:

Digitizing on Openlayers

Digitizing on Openlayers and many other useful developers hints including GML, KML parsers etc:
- http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/modify-feature.html
- http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/

Easy way to GIS

This "Easy Way to GIS" seems to be our MapCat PRO competitor: there's less flexibility for IT integrators etc but much more GUI (ready product, "MI Professional" in web). See also GDSK Geoplatform Introduction (PDF)

Whereyougonnabe

Whereyougonnabe application has now gone live, Facebook account users can try it out here. Read more information about the application at our founder Peter Batty's blog (announcement and review).

Whereyougonnabe is a service which enables you to geocode and save locations where and when you will be doing things in the future (where you gonna be?), also you can see when your friends will be close to you. You can view information on Google maps in both in a browser and using Google Earth.