Sitting on a couple of improvements for some time now, like resize and Google Local search. Need some time to put it live. Soon, I promise. If you’re interested, check out http://beta.mapanui.com/get_bookmarklet/ which is my secret development environment.
Archive for the ‘Mapanui’ Category
Updates
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008Mapanui on Sitepoint
Thursday, December 11th, 2008Receiving lots of Mapanui love from Meitar Moscovitz over at Sitepoint’s “4 Easy-to-Use Microformat Tools to Beef Up Your Site“. We’re among good company, so do check out the other tools too!
Mapanui v1
Friday, November 28th, 2008It’s been about a year since I started at Mapanui, in its current form, so I’d like to take it out of beta and into a v1. It’s still a first version, so it’s far from perfect. I’ve got some minor updates planned, a bit of tweaking (Google Ajax api loading) and optimization, some additional functionality (local search), some major enhancements later on.
A v2 is also in the back of my head, but for that I might need the help of others. Thinking of ways to extend Mapanui with extra, external data, as noted on my Ignite Spatial/Barcamp presentation. If you’re interested, get in touch!
Then there’s still the idea of doing an open source bookmarklets framework, which adds extra functionality cross-browser/cross-platform, kindof like IE8 Accelerators or Oomph in the browser.
If only a day would have more hours…
Ignite Spatial Presentation Video
Thursday, November 27th, 2008The Ignite Spatial preso video was put online at YouTube. It is kind of dark though.
It was a really hard presentation format to do, 15 sec per slide. I kind of messed it up at the beginning and at the end, but looking back at it, the main content was alright.
Fixed and improved: Google Maps link and others
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008Fixed: oversight where the Google Maps link in the info tabs would just send you to Google Maps, without the coordinates. Added the coordinates so Google Maps will show you the Mapanui location too.
Fixed: the height of the maps container to equal height of the iframe.
Improved: load JavaScript after showing “Loading Mapanui…” text. Else it would take a while before the iframe showed anything. Added loading animation eye candy.
Improved: use dropdown element for map type selection to preserve screen real estate.
Improved: as requested, different zoom level based on search including the street name. More zoomed in when it is included, less zoom when not included.
Am looking into adding Google Local Search, which ads 65KB. Though the Mapanui pane itself is pretty small to display the extra info.
WSG’s Some links for light reading (18/11/08)
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008Mapanui made it into the weekly Web Standards Group’s “Links for light reading” of November 18.
Presentation at Barcamp Sydney 4
Saturday, November 15th, 2008Today I repeated my Ignite Spatial presentation at Barcamp Sydney 4.
Lots of positive feedback!
At Ignite Spatial
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008Tonight I’ll present Mapanui in 5 minutes, Ignite style: 20 slides, 15 seconds per slide.
Come say hi at Ignite Spatial.
Edit: Hmmm, not too happy with my presentation, that’s pretty hard, needed more practice.
Anyway, here’s the presentation at Slideshare:
Sitepoint
Saturday, September 27th, 2008Sitepoint‘s review of WebJam8 and Mapanui:
Mapanui gives you a simple, seamless method to add maps to your own sites through the creation of virtual address cards. So simple and seamless, in fact, that I embedded one into this page in about 25 seconds.
Wish they did put in a microformated address, so it could find one on that page.
Mapanui Webjam8 preso
Friday, September 26th, 2008
My Mapanui preso at Webjam8 went quite well actually. Had to set up a iBurst powered wireless network at the venue, maybe that took my mind of off things. Got plenty of positive feedback. No WIN though.
T-shirt by ShirtForCoders.
Edit: Check out the Webjam8 pictures on Flickr; there’s even video…