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Coming updates for pinmaps.net
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Friday, March 05, 2010 by
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I have some great ideas that I want to move forward to give our users
more tools to interact with their maps. First of all I want to offer a
way to share your map pins on twitter including a short url link that
will redirect to your map pont.
Twitter has become a very important tool in your the social media
arsenal and I have to give the tool to share your interactive map with
your followers and friend on twitter.
Second I want to create an interactive map that will allow you to add push pins in order to get the directions to one or more locations.
I hope to have these updates in the coming weeks.
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We have transfer the site to a new server
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Monday, August 24, 2009 by
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We are delighted to inform that the transfer to the new server has been completed. The new server has a lot more capacity and the site should feel more responsive and reliable. Some of the problems that we had such as login time should be fine now, but let us know if you experience otherwise. Also the refresh button on the map is working as it should now.
Thanks for your patience during this transfer.
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Printing issues resolved
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Friday, April 24, 2009 by
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I've been working lately to fix several bugs and performance related issues with the site. Most of this is under the hood, but there a some few cosmetic enhancements that has been done as well like highlighting the selected map point, the embedded little map window on the map, but the most important fix this time is that the printing function of the maps and map points alike.
When you are in map view and print it, all the markers on the map will show up as well, and the map point printing link shows the correct map.
Thank you for your patience, and let me know if there is any problem.
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Reverse Geocoding
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Thursday, December 18, 2008 by
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I have added a new cool feature to the site; reverse geocoding. I know I said I would work on the directions minitab, but I though reverse geocoding would be very useful and easy to implement. Helpful because it can be used to find the zip code or city name of a given point on the map.
Let me start to explain what it is. Geocoding is the process of converting and address into latitude / longitude so it can be pin pointed on a map. As the name suggests reverse geocoding is the oposite process of converting the latitude / longitude values in a physical address.
Reverse geocoding is not an exact science; the "geocoder" will try to find the closest addresable location within a certain tolerance. In order to help us to figure out how accurate the address is, the geocoder returns a "accuracy" value from 1 to 9 with 9 being the highest value of accuracy. What it means is that a 9 "accuracy" value is within the street level and a 4 value for intance is about the city level. You have to give it a try to find the level you want.
Now I want to explain how to use it; go to "MyMaps" and click the "Add Map Point" link on the left hand side of the menu bar and then click anywhere on the map. An infowindow will pop up with the requested information inside. Here you have the option the to add this point to your map (see example below).
Then if you want to make another request you need to click the "Add Map Point" link again that triggers the map click event. Every time you click on the map a new push pin is created in a random color and the previous one is removed from the map.
After this update to the site now I promise I'll work on the directions minitab, if I don't get distracted with something cool in the meantime.
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Site updates and fixes
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Thursday, November 20, 2008 by
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After a long session of testing I found several problems that needed to be worked on. The list of fixes is rather long but I think there are a couple that is worth to mention here.
First there was a wrong line of code that prevented the buttons to create, edit and delete maps to show on the menu bar after the user has saved his first map; therefore the user could not create more than one map. Pretty bad stuff I would say.
The second problem is more related with performance and speed than a actual visible problem on the user interface. To be brief after an instance of the Gmap was created I tried to add all the controls on the map before setting the center of the newly created map. The javascript would take longer than usual while trying to create the map controls and in some cases the controls would not load at all and instead the browser would throw and error.
On the updates side the icons on the map list show the actual icon selected for that map point instead of the default black push pin icon. This can help to located and relate map points easier.
If you still want to see the black push pin you can change this property on the setting page. Just select default on the drop down box of the Side panel icon property.
As a bonus you can change the size of the map list icon to suit your needs; I suggest you try them to see how they look. I have set the size of the icons on the above example at 22px.
The next update will be the directions mini tab. Stay tuned
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New Map Interface
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Friday, October 31, 2008 by
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Some people might had been wondering if development of site had stalled because there wasn't any new features lately, but I can't assure you that I'm still very much committed to develop the site but since I'm doing this part time all by myself the pace is not as fast as I want.
So now I have totally redesigned the my maps page to make it more user friendly and and usable with all the major browsers.
Also the new page has been designed to accommodate the new features that will be coming in the next few months. As usual I'll like to hear your comments about the site and specially the new maps page.
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The web site was down on Sept 27-08
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 by
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Due to a OS problem the web hosting service informed us that the web site would be down for about 24 hours.
We have a daily site and database back up that is done at the end of the day, but if you saved map points right before the server went down there is a possibility that they were no saved with the latest back up. Please check your maps and map points list.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
This is the official email from the hosting service: 9-27-08 (8:20 a.m.)
"The Server is currently down (keeps restarting itself) due to a problem with operating system or harddisk issue.
We have used different methods to troubleshoot but it doesn't help.
The server is being reinstalled with Windows OS.
It will take 12-24 hours to complete the process os reload and data restore.
We apologize for the inconveniences this issue may cause."
Back on business: 9-28-08 (4:15 a.m.)
OS reload on the server is done.
We are in the process of restoring data from backup.
Restore Priority: dns, websites, databases, email, ftp, stats
Currently most websites should have been up and running.
There are still a lot of work to be done.
We thank you for your patience while we're working hard to restore service.
I have set up a Twitter account to inform users if the web site is not accessible, you can find it here:
http://twitter.com/Pinmaps/
Check it out because I'll post of the progress done with the site.
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Street View Panormama
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Friday, August 08, 2008 by
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Google Maps have added a street view option to driving directions on Google Maps. Where street view is available a small camera now appears next to each step in the driving directions given by Google.
When you click on the camera a street view window appears with a blue line marking your route and a big white arrow points you in the right direction. When you arrive at a junction a message appears telling you which direction to turn.
This video from Google explains it much better
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Elevation and other Web Services
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Saturday, July 26, 2008 by
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I have completely changed the map point altitude service that was not working very well. From the user point of view nothing has changed and it works the same.
Like before you can access the service any time from the context menu. Just right click the mouse anywhere on the map and select Get Altitude to load the service.
I'm using the geonames web service, so be aware that sometimes their server might be unavailable or the response can take a while.
In the next few week I want to add a Weather service that gives you the current weather conditions from the nearest weather station when we provide the latitude and longitude to query the service. I'll talk more about it when I put it online; now I'm doing the coding and testing.
Let me know if you experience any problem with the Altitude service.
Update: The geonames Weather service has been added.
Just right click anywhere on the map and select Get Weather from the context menu.
Below is the resulting screen:
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Search Box and other updates
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Thursday, June 26, 2008 by
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I have implemented some few updates:
- The search box is now visible all the time so you don't have make it visible after each search.
- After you save or edit a map point you don't have to wait for the whole page to refresh; now only the map and the list box refresh to reflect the changes. This makes the process of saving and updating map points faster.
- The links to save and edit map points are now on the info window as well as the menu bar. They are easier to find.
- When you click the map to add a marker it will create only one icon. Before, it would create icon after icon every time you clicked the map; this was sometimes very annoying.
- The icon created after you click the map is now "draggable", so can locate it exactly where you want.
- I have added a Photos button to the map to get pictures from the web service of Panoramio
I have some updates coming for the next few weeks. I'll keep you posted...
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