You’ve heard this message before if you have built mapping apps on top of Google Maps:
Google bakes the crust and you provide the toppings
We have been baking maps for over 5 or 6 years now and over the years we learned 3 things (that apply to …
Today, 680 news reported that “the last 10 days of November are reportedly the worst of the year for pedestrian accidents.” It also stated that “so far in 2012, 20 pedestrians have died after struck by vehicles on Toronto roads,̶…
Over the past year we’ve been engaged with a number of different municipalities discussing the project we completed with the City of Mississauga (http://www.cultureonthemap.ca). Since then many of them have seen this work. At a recent municipal …
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 a…
Kevin Macdonald talks with Damien Somerset about ThinkWrap’s partnership with the X PRIZE Foundation in a project to inspire a new generation of safe, green and super efficient vehicles. You will be able to track the vehicles on the Google Map se…
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…
At the end of August our friends at GoogleMapsMania did a Q and A with our staff that can be checked out here.
We in turn had some questions for their lead writer Keir Clarke about the industry, since their site has been the top destination for Google …
The main goal for any website is to achieve web presence, but what is the point of having web presence if you can’t be found? – and by “found” I mean besides ‘Googling’ for ‘yourwebsite.com’. This is wher…
We’re always on the lookout for new campus maps using the Google Maps API, and here are just a few of the ones we have discovered:
Rice University
Loading issues aside, this map is both aesthetically pleasing and quite easy to navigate.
Mississi…
Background
For the past 20 years, web-based geographic mapping was very difficult to perform, and largely remained a curiosity prior to the release of Google Maps in 2005. Since then, a cottage industry around consumer mapping has appeared and has pro…
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