Clazh » Maps http://www.clazh.com Technology & Design Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:27:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Google Maps Adds More Coverage For India http://www.clazh.com/google-maps-adds-more-coverage-for-india/ http://www.clazh.com/google-maps-adds-more-coverage-for-india/#comments Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:13:14 +0000 Arpit Jacob http://www.clazh.com/google-maps-adds-more-coverage-for-india/ Google just added more Coverage for places in India. This is good news I used to use Wikimapia.org as a substitute since Google didn’t show maps when you tried to looks at cities in India. Wikimapia has become a mess now, with too many people marking out places and homes, Though at times it does a better job than Google Maps especially if you are searching for some really vague street corner.

This new search functionality is available for the following cities in India (some of which are new to Google Maps): Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad Agartala, Agra, Allahabad, Amritsar, Bhopal, Bhubhaneswar, Bikaner, Chandigarh, Cuttack, Darjeeling, Dehradun, Diu, Ernakulam, Gandhinagar, Goa, Guwahati, Gwalior, Haridwar-Rishikesh, Indore, Jaipur, Jaisalmer, Jamshedpur, Jhansi, Kanchipuram, Kanpur, Kochi, Kolhapur, Lucknow, Mangalore, Mount Abu, Mussoorie, Nagpur, Nashik, Ooty, Patna, Pondicherry, Port Blair, Raipur, Rajkot, Ranchi, Solapur (Sholapur), Srinagar, Surat, Thrissur (Trichur), Tiruchirappalli (Tiruchchirappalli), Trivandrum, Vadodara, Varanasi, Vizag

Source GooglMapsMania

Related posts:

  1. WikiMapia The User Driven Google Maps Mashup
  2. What can YOU do for India (Inspirational video)
  3. American Apparel Made in India/Pakistan/Sri-Lanka
  4. Google The Worst When It Comes To Security
  5. Google To Acquire Feedburner ?

© Arpit Jacob for Clazh, 2007. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us
Catergories: Google, Internet, Technology Tags: ,

]]> http://www.clazh.com/google-maps-adds-more-coverage-for-india/feed/ 0 WikiMapia The User Driven Google Maps Mashup http://www.clazh.com/wikimapia-the-user-driven-google-maps-mashup/ http://www.clazh.com/wikimapia-the-user-driven-google-maps-mashup/#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:00:23 +0000 Arpit Jacob http://www.clazh.com/wikimapia-the-user-driven-google-maps-mashup/ I have always been impressed with Google maps. The amazing use of Ajax with real-time zooming of maps and places. Though I been a bit envious of the US because they get detailed maps with names of places, roads etc marked out and shown on it. Unfortunately for people like me living in India and other countries this Information is not available we have to do with the Satellite images.

This is where WikiMapia created by Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev can help, its a mashup which uses the Google maps API . In the case of wikimapia it combines both the service of a User Driven Content like a Wiki and Google maps. Though it won’t be 100% accurate it is still pretty reliable, an example of user driven content is the Wikipedia itself. This Web Service is a great hit especially in India though people have taken it to the extent of marking out their homes. If you can’t find your house or place on the map you can add the place freely, it get immediately updated on the website. I was simply wowed by how detailed the number of places were. The more I zoomed in the more places popuped up. In fact I found that my house was already marked out.

You can even Embed the Maps on your webpages if you want. Pretty useful if you want to show someone else the way to a certain place.

How to add Maps to your blog or Webpage.

1) Go anywhere on the WikiMapia.org site and find the part or area on the map that you would like to show.
2) Click WikiMapia at the top right corner and choose map on your page link.
3) Move and resize frame you see to desired view, adjust view setting if needed and copy the given html code to your page or blog.

Example Show below of Taj Mahal

Related posts:

  1. Google Maps Adds More Coverage For India
  2. Google Announces "Gears" Offline Support For Web Applications
  3. Google The Hypocrite
  4. Google Bookmarks And Reader The Most Popular Services
  5. Facebook Chat, Google Gtalk Intergration Coming Soon

© Arpit Jacob for Clazh, 2007. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us
Catergories: Technology Tags: , , , ,

]]> http://www.clazh.com/wikimapia-the-user-driven-google-maps-mashup/feed/ 0