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var locations = new Array();

var xy1 = new MMPoint(523000,212324); // OSTN97 OS National Grid
var xy2 = new MMPoint(323000,212324);
var xy3 = new MMPoint(423000,212324);

locations.push(xy1);
locations.push(xy2);
locations.push(xy3);

var funcRef = convertResultsLoaded;
var converter = new MMConverter( funcRef );
converter.convert(locations, ‘osng’);

function convertResultsLoaded() {
console.log(converter.result_set);
};

A while ago I blogged about using OS Grid References in the Multimap API.  Web mapping developers [...]

Web applications using Multimap API Routing often include custom ‘travel direction icons’ in the route instructions for clarity and a richer user experience.  For example Ford use icons to indicate the direction of turn in their Irish Ford Dealer Locator routing:

The RAC has followed a similar approach with their route planner instructions:

Previously developers who are [...]

Martin Daly has done a review of embedded map tools and Multimap comes out top.  More details on how to use this are here.

Multimap have recently released new street level maps for countries in the Middle East.  The countries are:
•    Bahrain•    Kuwait •    Oman•    Qatar•    Saudi Arabia •    UAE
We have also added:

Additional zoom levels of maps in Malaysia
Collins Bartholomew Road Atlas maps for Great Britain
Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland maps

Here are some examples:
Middle East (zoom levels 13-18)
Two additional [...]

It is now possible to localise the Multimap API for a specific language.  This means that when I am in Austria, I can develop a mapping application using localisation and see the world from German speaking perspective.  So at last German speakers no longer need to know that Map = Karte.
To do this I add [...]

 
Last week Multimap released a new service for small businesses, personal web sites and hobbyists.  The service, available for free from www.multimap.com, provides a single line of HTML to cut and paste into a web page, like this:

So basically this allows you to easily embed a map in your website, without having to write any [...]

One of the common problems with Web Mapping applications is that what end users regard as a place often does not match the ‘official’ place names in the commercial gazetteer data that web mapping services depend on for geocoding.  For example in London everyone knows where “Soho“, “Bloomsbury” and “Big Ben” are, but in [...]

Juts found this video of Sean Phelan talking about how he started Multimap, grew it and eventually sold to Microsoft.  Interesting stuff, especially on surviving the dot-com crash and the reasons for the sale.   I love Sean’s phrase that Multimap (in the context Google and Microsoft) was a mouse “running around two elephants fighting”.

I have had some fun taking a few Photosynths in London and wanted to follow Chris Pendleton’s approach to putting them on a map.  However, I decided to use the Multimap API…
Here is my map of Photosynths.  The great advantage of the Multimap API for this is that I can use grid decluttering, which is [...]

A while ago I blogged about Static Maps and how these could be used without any JavaScript.  This means that Static Maps can be used to develop mapping applications that use ‘Progressive Enhancement’.  Basically this is a fancy way of describing applications that gradually increase their functionality only as and when required by the end [...]