For the past six years we have been building Google Maps mashups and have learned a lot doing it. But something has changed these days with the availability of all these data APIs and with the rise of the Open Data movements all across Canada, the US and all over the world.
Six years ago the [...]
Kevin Macdonald talks about ThinkWrap’s partnership with the X PRIZE Foundation in a project to inspire a new generation of safe, green and super efficient vehicles.
PLAYA VISTA, CA, October 14, 2009 – The X PRIZE Foundation today announced details of a unique partnership with ThinkWrap Solutions Inc. to benefit the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE, a multi-million dollar competition designed to inspire a new generation of viable, safe and super fuel-efficient vehicles.
When Martha Stewart came knocking we knew that her diverse product offerings would require a store locator robust enough to track down the most sought after duvets, candle holders and other “good things.”
Our team designed, developed, and successfully deployed the Martha Stewart store locator and also created a data standard and integration process to support [...]
If there is one map I tend to ruminate the most on, it would have to be our work on OttawaU’s interactive campus map.
As demonstrated in the video, the new map is chock full of features that I wish I had had during my days at school. I would have especially liked [...]
Our GoogleMapsDev team plotted text messages on a map of the United States for the Obama campaign. Text messages, received from an SMS service, were geocoded based on phone number, aggregated by campaign topic, and displayed on a Google Map. Our map was tailored and integrated into a very large 50K+ person stadium [...]
Some people carried reusable shopping bags, while others took shorter showers. Many people made commitments to help improve the environment and we worked with Google to create this map to showcase some of those great ideas that were submitted.