Google maps in Freeway

Thanks Walter,

I’d just like to say thanks for your instructions, [found in
Docs - Softpress Talk] how to put a Google map into a Freeway site:

http://www.walterdavisstudio.com/mapdemo.html

It took only a few minutes to register with Google and put up a Google Map
on a site I’m preparing. Much easier than I’d feared.

Also I was expecting to have to upload the page to the server, but it worked
locally in Safari.

I may come back to ask how I might put up a map that will contain biological
survey data for Shropshire, an English county. Map yet to be created.

Best wishes Peter

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Speaking of Google Maps - anyone else seen this?

http://www.swisstrains.ch/

Could that sort of on the fly movement be coded into Freeway?

Cheers
Pete

On 24 Jan 2008, at 16:06, Peter Tucker wrote:

Thanks Walter,

I’d just like to say thanks for your instructions, [found in
Docs - Softpress Talk] how to put a Google map into a
Freeway site:

http://www.walterdavisstudio.com/mapdemo.html

It took only a few minutes to register with Google and put up a
Google Map
on a site I’m preparing. Much easier than I’d feared.

Also I was expecting to have to upload the page to the server, but
it worked
locally in Safari.

I may come back to ask how I might put up a map that will contain
biological
survey data for Shropshire, an English county. Map yet to be created.

Best wishes Peter

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That swisstrains thing is really cool. I have usually heard of these things described as a “mashup”. Using RSS feeds or other public APIs, developers mash two or more things together to make a new way of looking at data.

When my wife was scouting locations for her optometry practice, we came upon one which overlaid census data and zip code regions on the Google map, and showed you the most populous Zip codes by making their codes larger font-size, similar to the tag cloud on Flickr.

What’s really amazing is that often these things don’t require a lot in the way of programming to get going, because the developers of the various services have provided a rich API that allows mixing and matching.

Have a google at ‘mashup’, and see where you go from there. It’s probably not going to be something that you’ll see an Action for, but it may be easier than you think to make one of these for yourself.

Walter


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