Yahoo has launched their contibution of “track your location” sites with the release of Fire Eagle. The basic idea behind Fire Eagle is to become the link between your location and the services that you want to give your location to. You can feed your location to Fire Eagle from your GPS unit, cell phone, laptop, etc, then their applications can use it for whatever task you give them permission for. Even though it has just launched, there are a large number of sites already using it (e.g., Dopplr, Facebook, etc.), many of which tie into Google Maps.
In other words, Yahoo’s Fire Eagle, what I like to call a meta-app because it manages many location-enabled apps, is now open to all.
Since ArcGIS 9.3 ESRI provides a JavaScript API of ArcGIS Server.
The video shows how to build powerful business applications by dynamically querying information contained in map layers.To query geometry properties you can use the esri.arcgis.gmaps.Query class.
The GeolocationAPIprovides the geolocation of a device running a Gears-enabled web browser. The Geolocation API allows web apps to retrieve the user’s current position. The API should provide the following features:
One-shot position requests (e.g. for recommendations sites — “where am I right now?”)
Repeated position updates (e.g. for continuously updating one’s location on a map)
Ability to get the last-known position cheaply before doing an expensive new request
Compatibility with future use as a singleton in the standard DOM (e.g. window.geolocation)
Last February Google has introduced their Static Maps API, where you can enbed maps, as static picture in your website. Now there was the first update on this API. The functionality has been enhanced. Beside Placemarks also Lines and Polylines can be represented. Furthermore the language of the map can be selected:
Example:
All news in more detail:
Placemark Settings:
The size of one maker can be set with four levels from normal to very tiny. Additional the color can be changed (until now only 8 colors are available). You can add also Letters or Numbers to the placemark.
Paths and Lines:
Lines with up to 50 Points can be added to the map. the color, width, alpha-intensity of the Line can be changed.
Picturetype:
Until now only a GIF export of the map was possible. Now the fileformat of the map can be changed also to PNG or JPG.
Language of the map:
The Language of the map can be changed. According to the area the map displays the language changes to the local language by default.
All in all nice new features.
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Hier zeigt Google einen ersten Einblick in das Open Social Network, mit dem sie die Konkurenz wie Facebook oder MySpace ausstechen wollen.
Google setzt dabei auf ein offenes API.
OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites. Using standard JavaScript and HTML, they enable developers to create apps that access a social network’s friends and update feeds.
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