Andrew Bidochko

Right now you can save MapType to your map configuration (Map. Satellite, Hybrid) and generate your map for desired MapType as well. To check this feature goto to MapBuilder’s home, set desired map type and hit “Save Center, Zoom & Map Type(map, satellite, hyprid)” button. After that check map’s source code, preview or your map @ mapbuilder…whatever you want.
See http://mapbuilder.net/UserMap.php?UserName=Andrew as a example what can be done with MapType option.

Booming Maps page continues to be very popular page on MapBuilder. I like it

“Map Implementation” page(available for registered users only) extended with 2 more ways of map implementation: “Source Code to Your HTML Page - Keep You Map Live” and “Source Code to Your HTML Page - Copy & Paste”.

So actually we have 3 ways how to share a map created @ mapbuilder.net:
1. Put button or link to your site like this
2. Get html source code which will grab live map from mapbuilder.net
3. Get static html and paste it to your web page

Recently I’ve added couple featues to MapBuilder.net:
- “Shared ! Locations” are available. This is unique map which shows all ‘none private’ users locations. This is the great spot for new map community. So hurry to share your locations. Note, only locations of registered users are available for sharing. Also right now I’m experience some problems using this map in Internet Explorer. FireFox works well.
- RSS Feeds XML support has been added to MapBuilder as the part of “Shared ! Locations” functionality.
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MapBuilder.net
“MapBuilder lets you tag locations on a map and publish it on your own site.
Mapping is now easy than ever. It’s free.”

На заході вже досить давно є популярним використання RSS Feeds для збору і обміну новинами або іншої інформації яка легко піддається групуванню.
Що можна сказати про українські сервери новин, газети і тд? Та нічого. Не продукують вони RSS файлів та й усе.
Як казав хтось з моїх друзів “сосати”.
Якщо хтось має лінки на україномовні RSS - будь-ласка, запостьте в коментах.

Взагалі для чого воно мені треба. Недавно в офісі склепали www.TagCloud.com. Система використовує Content Analysis web service від Yahoo для визначення найбільш популярних тегів серед новин які постяться на Yahoo.
www.TagCloud.com став швидко популярним серед користувачів і ми вирішили додати підтримку UTF кодування для кириличних і всяких там китайських шрифтів. Так як китайської мови у нас на фірмі не знає ніхто, а один я знаю тільки українську (всі решта нейтів амеріканс то для тесування та й для створення власного Cloud-a для українських новин я почав шукати україномовні RSS. І тут я тяжко обламався Так що от такі справи.

PS: Mої TagClouds можете глянути на http://tagcloud.abidcom.com/

I’m pretty excited again of Google Team.
Today (Apollo 11 30th Anniversary) they realeased http://moon.google.com/. It’s sweet.

Quote from NASA Site

On July 20, 1969, the human race accomplished its single greatest technological achievement of all time when a human first set foot on another celestial body.

Six hours after landing at 4:17 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (with less than 30 seconds of fuel remaining), Neil A. Armstrong took the “Small Step” into our greater future when he stepped off the Lunar Module, named “Eagle,” onto the surface of the Moon, from which he could look up and see Earth in the heavens as no one had done before him.

He was shortly joined by “Buzz” Aldrin, and the two astronauts spent 21 hours on the lunar surface and returned 46 pounds of lunar rocks. After their historic walks on the Moon, they successfully docked with the Command Module “Columbia,” in which Michael Collins was patiently orbiting the cold but no longer lifeless Moon.

Tonight I’ve completed coding for anonymouse/authorized functionality. Also system has been tested and looks stable.
As well couple of features were added to map generating process (see “Map Controls” tab):
- MapControls received some images for controls visualization.
- User can set up Zoom Level for generated map
- User can specify Width and Height for the map.

And finally “Save Center and Zoom” button has been added on the home page. After adding locations just centre your map and press the “Save Center and Zoom” button. Your generated map will be centered almost in the same center position.

Tonight MapBuilder.net was released as a beta. Google Mania has received one more member
Right now all desired Google map building features are implemented.
Probably over the weekend I will ad some more cool staff for registered users.
The first comments about MapBuilder are available at Google-Maps-API discussion group .

Couple of days ago I started MapBuilder project development.
Right now it is still in development, but nice map builder interface(created using Google MAP API) is ready for use. You can play with it just trying to map number of different location, update alredy mapped locations, delete some of them.
Try to use that intefrace at MapBuilder.net

What is MapBuilder?
This is one more project related to very popular nowadays GoogleMap mania. MapBuilder lets you to build your own map with number of location and generate GoogleMap source code for this map. So you will be able to paste it directly into your web page and use it with your API key requested at Google. After creating your own map you will be able to save all locations with related information for future use. It means that you’ll be able to make some improvements for your map later.

There are a lot of improvement that should be done, but MapBuilder’s location mapping location mapping engine works well. So it’s good to start.