Andrew Bidochko

Over the time I’ve seen many maps created by MapBuilder. So I decided to share my favorite one (list will grow up).

Central Park Birding Locations
An interesting outdoor urban mashup showing the locations of various types of birds in Central Park. Info balloons show pictures of the birds as well as referencing the page numbers from the book titled: “Birds of Central Park”.

Musashi University Cycling Club
Nice map create by Japanese guys. A lot of pictures. I do not understand Japanese but map has the following tags:Miyako Island 東北 Yaeyama Islands kyushu Kanto Tohoku

The Many Travels of Dan
Map integrated with AudioBlog.com.

Jerez de la Frontera
Hotels, monuments and more… I would like to note icon customisation on this map.

More favorites coming soon…

Минулого тижня купляв каву в зернах(продається на вагу). Ну майже як у “Галці” у Львові.
Я був здивований що на касі сказали платити 7 баксів за цілий паунд (0.5 кг), а не за реальну вагу. Касир сказала піти на Customer Support.
На Customer Support сказали що дійсно каву треба зважити, але нажаль система не просить зважити каву (тіпа бага у програмі) і вони не можуть ввести реальну вагу. Сказали сорі, ось ваша кава безкоштовно. Звичайно я був трохи розгублений що вийшла така “шара”. Але що зробиш, фрі значить фрі.

ПС: звичайно вийшовши з магазину я подумав може то взяти ще раз кави безплатно, і побільше

It took more than month to get my interview published on eHub. Finally it is live.
Hope you will enjoy reading it!
Emily! Thanks for the post and keep up the good work.

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eHub Interviews is a project by Emily Chang and Max Kiesler of Ideacodes, a strategic web design consultancy in San Francisco,
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next generation web.

Recently JavaScript Injection method has been slightly updated to set map size dynamically using values specified on “Map Controls” page. It means that you can resize your map without any source code modification. Just update map size on “Map Controls” page!

JavaScript injection method has been updated with recent “Direction” features and new info window structure. It’s necessary to upgrade your existing html code with latest code generated by mapbuilder.net to get nice layout for your pop up windows.

Recently I’ve updated a css style for info window (popup window which appears once user clicks on the marker). That update was done to allow users change layout css styles of “direction” box. So right now info window has the following structure:

By default default window styles defined as the following:

#MapBuilderIW { width: 350px;}
#MapBuilderIWContent {height: 120px; overflow:auto;}
#MapBuilderIWCaption {font-weight: bold; font-size: 12pt; color: #369; border-bottom: 2px solid #369;}
#MapBuilderIWFooter {margin-top: 5px; font-size: 8pt; }
#MapBuilderIWFooterZoom {}
#MapBuilderIWDirections{ margin-bottom: 10px;}

In some cases users want to have small info window (with size of default google-map info window). To get that done you it’s necessary to remove all style references listed above from generated source code or just put the following:

#MapBuilderIW {width: 200px;}
#MapBuilderIWCaption {font-weight: bold;}

I really recommend everyone to listen this podcast by Brewster Kahle ( Director and Co-founder of the Internet Archive). I’ve found it very interesting. Go ahead and listen!

У понеділок перед Thanksgiving Day у америці починається Різдвяний сезон - офіційно запалюється ялинка, різдвяні вогні на вулицях ну і звичайно прилітає (до нас правда приїзджав) Санта Клаус. Thanksgiving Day завжди припадає на четвер, а п”ятницю після Thanksgiving називають Black Friday - народ масово валить на шопінг скупляти подарунки на різдво всім своїм родичам, друзям і знайомим.

Фоточки з відкриття різдвяного сезону можна глянути на Flickr-і.

Recently new feature has been added to MapBuilder.net. Users are able to sent request for join development for any existing map. It’s so called “Shared Map Development”. Each request must be approved by owner. This new feature will allow users to build community around particular map.

Who can use this feature?
Bloggers, people who build community maps, etc.

How it works? Just search for map you are interested in, view the map (you’ll see something like this) and request permission to join the map using form on the “Tools” panel. Map owner will grant requested or some other access level for you. You’ll get email notification about once your request will be accepted.

Recently I’ve changed Geocoding provider for address search on the main page. I began to use Yahoo! Geocoding API implemented in my Geo!Suggest application.
I like Geocoding results from Yahoo much better than results from Geocoder.us or Geocoder.ca.