Great Yahoo Maps Example
New applications coming with the advent of Yahoo Maps ...
"Many interface elements have a watershed moment, when someone implements them in such a cool or useful way that nobody questions their worth anymore. Amazon did this with tabs, and now we have tabs everywhere on the Web. Before Amazon, the tabbed interface was mainly relegated to desktop applications.
A watershed moment is happening with online maps as we speak. First is was Housingmaps, created by Paul Rademacher, an application so obviously cool and useful that is started a revolution in mapping. Housingmaps was built using Ajax, the technology du jour, and after one look at Housingmaps you no longer needed to know why the Google Maps service is useful. The only problem is determining if it is useful in your projects.
Though the new Yahoo Maps is nice, and serves to bolster Flash’s reputation, the real watershed moment comes from a developer, Justin Everett-Church, who has manipulated the Yahoo Maps API to produce something pretty amazing: a map that looks any way you want it to. In his post on the topic, Justin shows off two very different maps, both using the same underlying technology. (note that you’ll need Flash 8 to view it correctly)" continued ... (Via UIE Brain Sparks)
"Many interface elements have a watershed moment, when someone implements them in such a cool or useful way that nobody questions their worth anymore. Amazon did this with tabs, and now we have tabs everywhere on the Web. Before Amazon, the tabbed interface was mainly relegated to desktop applications.
A watershed moment is happening with online maps as we speak. First is was Housingmaps, created by Paul Rademacher, an application so obviously cool and useful that is started a revolution in mapping. Housingmaps was built using Ajax, the technology du jour, and after one look at Housingmaps you no longer needed to know why the Google Maps service is useful. The only problem is determining if it is useful in your projects.
Though the new Yahoo Maps is nice, and serves to bolster Flash’s reputation, the real watershed moment comes from a developer, Justin Everett-Church, who has manipulated the Yahoo Maps API to produce something pretty amazing: a map that looks any way you want it to. In his post on the topic, Justin shows off two very different maps, both using the same underlying technology. (note that you’ll need Flash 8 to view it correctly)" continued ... (Via UIE Brain Sparks)
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