mapping Yahoo set to launch international maps? March 24, 2006 by admin | Leave a Comment Yahoo needs international mapping to be a serious competitor to Google Maps in the long run, and recently there have been a few things that hint that international support may be coming. First, an interesting post by Yahoo Employee Alan Brown, who points out that last year Yahoo acquired a company that provides geocoding on […] Read more »
mapping Amazon S3 for map tile storage and delivery? March 17, 2006 by admin | Leave a Comment Amazon recently launched their new S3 Storage service, and everyone seems to be clamoring to figure out uses for it. Well here is my contribution: map tile storage and serving. Think about it: You want to create your own tile based map delivery (because your boss has been nagging you about it ever since the […] Read more »
mapping Commercial or Public, It’s still all about the data March 15, 2006 by admin | Leave a Comment My day job at the City of Portland lets me work with really cool data. Take a look at PortlandMaps for example. It has several dozen different datasets all rolled into one easy to navigate interface. The mapping GUI and speed is not up to today’s standards of AJAX based map viewers (yet), but the […] Read more »