Tim Warr’s Blog

BBC have just released their interactive Olympic Map.  It is awesome and has even been built to incorporate twitter and blog posts during the event.  I love the use of Virtual Earth, their own map tiles and nicely designed icons.  Also a good idea to stick with aerial for a clean feel (rather than letting users switch map types). I would guess that they have used MapCruncher to generate their map tiles on top of the imagery.

More information is in the BBC’s Ollie Williams‘ blog post.  Not quite sure why he mentions that California company though when it is all done through Virtual Earth…