Newsletter about ASP services and data updates

We started to send newsletter to our customers (only in estonian). Main motivator of doing this was need for updated information about our services and data updates, but also software upgrades and latest customer projects.

Regio runs biggest masperver in Baltics and more than 100 applications are using our ASP services daily. See newsletter archive in blog and also latest release about map updates here

From Google Maps directly to your Mercedes Benz

Mercedes-Benz has recently included a Google Maps service for drivers called Search & Send. The service will give Mercedes-Benz drivers who are equipped with Tele Aid the ability to send destinations and searches directly from Google Maps. More from Google Maps Mania blog...

Merge Your Map on Yahoo Maps with MapMixer

Yahoo launches new webapp MapMixer, which blends an existing map image with Yahoo Maps. Handy for overlaying a static public transportation system, campus or hiking trails map onto a fancy-pants dynamic Ajax map, MapMixer's essentially an easy-peasy mashup maker for anyone with a map digital image (or a scanner). Just upload your image and fit it onto Yahoo Maps.

Check out some more MapMixer creations in the featured map gallery.

More from Lifehacker and Read/Write Web

Video playpack syncronised on map

VeoGeo is a community based mashup using user GPS data, user video from YouTube and Google maps to playback video in sync with GPS data on Google map.
The mashup is still in early Beta, but working with existing examples very well.
This kind of mashups may have a lot of potential in tourism industry and others, especially when cellphones will have good GPS (A-GPS) support.

veogeo.com

JavaScript Map API comparison

Look at comparison of performance and developer friendliness of JavaScript mapping APIs by Niall Kennedy here...

See also Mapstraction.com website (library that provides a common API for various javascript mapping APIs to enable switching from one to another) and demos.

Papervision3D Public Beta

Papervision is 3D engine released under the MIT Open Source litsense:

...It started as a simple way to transform MovieClips to achieve the 3D illusion. By changing their position, size, rotation and skew you could almost forgive the lack of perspective. But the latest version, fully optimised for Flash 8 Image API, uses triangle tesselation to distort textures. Now we can render complex objects in “real 3D”!


Read also Adobe's article" Mapping Flash video to 3D objects".

Nutimap beta

Now you can download and test Nutimap interactive mobile map application. It has Regio detailed maps and address data, MGMaps.com application.

It supports:
- Regio most detailed Estonian maps (up to house number level)
- Search for addresses and placenames in Estonia (also up to house numbers)

Other key features:
- Track your location using GPS (via Bluetooth)
- Save your favourite locations

To be done yet:
- Search objects (POI) around some place
- Route directions
- million other extension ideas...

Routing on the fly

Damn, Google! They've done it. One fancy idea from our roadmap we called 'routing on the fly' is implemented by Google and looks quite cool, see demo...

Our demo just to illustrate the idea is here...

Cooperation of Microsoft and Maporama

Microsoft’s Virtual Earth mapping platform featuring roadmaps, satellite and aerial imagery, plus bird’s eye and 3-D views will be available for Maporama Intl corporate customers. They will benefit from increasingly innovative and complete solutions to meet their business needs: geolocalization, business intelligence, geomarketing, and mobility. Read the press release...

XML socket demo

Demo-application with server pushing vector data into flash through XML socket: