May

18

China Earthquake -Online Maps of Sichuan

May 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment

A high intensity earthquake of magnitude of 7.9 in the Richter scale was hit Sichuan, China on May 12, with its epicenter about 50 miles northwest of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan. Wei Luo, Technical Lead Manager, Google Earth wrote details about this in google-latlong.blogspot site. According to the latest news reports authorities fear […]

May

13

Make Money from Online Maps

May 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment

AfriGIS, a location based services company, has made their dynamic, interactive maps freely available to companies and individuals enabling the integration of AfriGIS’ maps into their HTML websites.
Magnus Rademeyer, AfriGIS MD, says people simply have to visit maps.AfriGIS.co.za and register for free. They will then receive a key to AfriGIS’ map server, which is then […]

May

13

Online map with “Fish-Eye” zoom feature

May 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment

A very exciting zoom technique on online maps has been introduced by ALPSLAB known as Fish-Eye zoom, on which you can magnify selected parts of a map, as if you are using a manual Fish-Eye lens. To activate this feature, you have to click anywhere on the map and then you can place the Fish-Eye […]

May

12

Yahoo! Maps in Indian local languages

May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Yahoo! India has introduced a new service for the first time in India that maps and directions details are available in Indian local languages. Apart from English as the default language, users can also experience the service in Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Punjabi. This is available on the existing […]

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