Just last week we put the finishing touches to a campaign-site for the larges Finnish newspaper. What's great about this campaign is that we finally got to do something involving maps and geolocation. Maps has been huge ever since Google released their service, but unfortunately they have not yet been able to deliver European (other than GB) map data.
So we were given the challenge to build a map-application from scratch where people could place markers and leave notes in a wiki-fashion onto the map. We quickly decided we would go with Flash, since that would enable to better prefetch, fade and zoom map imaginery. Our benchmark was Flashearth, which does a beautiful job in swapping low-res images into hires ones when zooming in. While we came quite close we did not have enough time to make it perfect, but I still think we did a great job.
Check it out at hs.fi/omakaupunki (Finnish only, but click the faces in the intro and you'll be able to get to the map).
And oh, the most important thing we leaned: Map imagery is freaking expensive!
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Very nice effort with a map!
Easy to use UI, crisp icons, you had proven again that your company excel at the work to the top!
If you are interested you can visit the page that features the map of Ayquilla map region:
http://www.onlinelearning.unu.edu/ayuquila/map.html
Sean Wood http://www.motionid.com did the graphical part, I did the programming in Flash MX 2004, Online Learning group in UN university in Tokyo had filled the map with a content.
The map has some qlitches, but IMHO still worth a visit :)
Posted by: JabbyPanda | 17 Apr 2006 17:28:14
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