Austrozoom is an Geoportal form the Telekom Austria. It is based on Google Maps and provides georeferenced information about Austria. It contains:
- areal- and satellite images
- city- and streetmaps
- more than 300.000 Points of Interests (POI)
- Content of 100 Info categories.
- search functionality
- route planning - public transport
- route planning - streets
- actuall traffic conditions (every 15 minutes)
- classifieds and real estates
Link: austrozoom.at
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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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Mapchannels has developed a great Google Maps and Virtual Earth hack, which allows to navigate parallel.
You can see my example here:http://www.joesonic.com/2_dualmap_en.php
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With the Static Map API everyone can embed a Map into a webpage.
The Wizard allows to generate the code. Here you set only your parameters and the map can be pasted as image into an webpage.
Try it out it’s simple.
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Google has extended their Transit Service for Google Maps. Chicago was newly added to this service. Google Transit is available mainly in the United States, but also in Japan, UK and in Switzerland, where a lot of stuff concerning Google Maps is developed. I hope transit will be soon available in more countries. It’s great to plan trips with public transportations, for example if you are new in a city.
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