ArcGIS server Flex API

ESRI announced the new ArcGIS API for Flex Beta at the ESRI International User Conference in San Diego, California, which was held August 4–8, 2008. Read more at DM press release...

First look and feel is quite good, but it's really still a beta ;-)


Also listen to the podcast at the same topic.

Interactive tourism-map (KOV)

There is new map on our products line. Interactive tourism-map (oftentimes called KOV inside Regio) is a tool for local municipalities, tourism portals etc to promote POI-s, hiking-routes, nature parks etc on map. It has features like route calculation, intelligent address-search, multible map views, emailing and printing map.

Even more noteworthy are its administration possibilities: Administrator can customize whole map interface design, its measures, and behaviour of objects, depth of zoom levels etc. Of course, has total control over object (also upload pictures to POI-s), layer and groups management.



Try our public demo account:
Map: http://teenus.regio.ee/kov/index.php?id=199
Admin: http://teenus.regio.ee/kov/admin
User: „demo“
Pass: „demo123“
NB! User rights in demo are limited.

Examples of projects using KOV:
- Map of MTÜ Pandivere Arendus-ja Inkubatsioonikeskus
- Map of Põlvamaa talurahvamuuseum. More about this project
- With interface using special design.

Baltic maps

Our own map and geocoding database of Baltics is finally ready and first tileset with address search is online for testing. Links to map demos:
Latvia
Lihtuania

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: