Archive for the ‘Multimap’ Category

Search for the United Kingdom and find…. a toilet

I enjoyed this:

Which gives this:

I love it!
Thanks to Orange_Monkey!

Where’s Gary?

I am loving the Where’s Gary map game! 
As mapperz explains:
Walkers Crisps and Multimap have join together to create a fun game. Find Gary three times in a day and you can claim one ‘Gary’s Great Trips’ point.

I have only managed to find him [...]

Multimap on MSN Local

A great new Multimap implementation has just gone live on UK MSN Local.  See http://local.uk.msn.com/ 
Basically  you can do a search for a property and see the results on a map, or use the “Explore Area” feature to see a map of an area with information about local amenities (e.g. schools and gyms) and data such [...]

New Multimap Map Add-In for Outlook

Ever wondered where you need to go for that meeting?  Ever wanted an easy way to add a map to an email?  Well now your roblem is solved! Multimap have juts released a new Outlook Map Add-in.  It can be installed from the new Multimap site ‘Explore Multimap’ here .
Currently the features of [...]

Multimap for Local Gov

eGov Toolkit have just done a great new Multimap implementation for Pinpoint (an application providing planning application information). 
Here is a great example for Epping Forest District council.  It provides access to data on 100,000 planning applications made over the last 60 years!
The features of this application I really like are:

The use of custom tiles to [...]

Microsoft Maps for Mobile Devices. A round-up…

 
Recently I’ve been thinking about the the world of mobile telephony and what it means for maps.  So we’ve had the iPhone since June 2007 and it certainly has exploded consumer expectations for interactive Location Based Services.  For better or worse, the iPhone is now the yardstick against which all new mobile devices and applications [...]

Trust and maps in London

 
An interesting blog post here on experiences searching for address and postcode in London on Google Maps and Multimap by Ham Life. 
I like the statement:
So I put my instinctive hatred of Microsoft aside and tried multimap instead.

Putty hatred aside paid off in this case! 

multimap.com – now with even more Ordnance Survey

A new release of the multimap.com website has just been made.  As well as bringing some behind the scenes performance improvements, there are some cool new features.
When you search for a place or address, a box is now place on the location giving useful local context information (for example a link to the nearest railway [...]

MSN UK Local – New Multimap Maps

The MSN Local Property pages have just launched a new version of the property searcher using the Multimap API.  This allows users to search for property geographically and display the results on a map. 

It makes nice use of the Multimap marker de-cluttering and info boxes.  Using very simple and small marker icons (like [...]

Multimap Embedded Maps Hack

Now I have shifted the hosting of my blog off wordpress.com, I have the luxury of being able to put iFrames and JavaScript in my blog posts and pages.  So I decided it was about time I had a slippy map on my blog and have added one to my sidebar (just look to the [...]