December 8th in Coding by .

Lightweight jQuery Plugin to Convert Images into Functional Maps – MobilyMap

MobilyMap is a jQuery plugin that can create a Google Maps-like, draggable interface from any image.

It is possible to add location-based markers and display information when any of these markers are clicked.

November 14th in JS by .

Lightweight Javascript Click and Drag Map Script – SpryMap

SpryMap is a super lightweight (2.8 KB), dependency free Javascript widget that turns any HTML element into a Google Maps-like click and drag window. SpryMap is released under the creative commons license, essentially you’re free to use it and adapt it for any personal or commercial purposes.

When using this script, you are given full control over how you want the map to act. What coordinates do you want it to start at? Do you want it [...]

October 7th in Coding, Open Source by .

Open Source JavaScript Map Framework – CartoView

Cartoview online demos are showing the extensibility of the CartoView platform and demonstrate what the platform can do.

The source code of the demo on this page are available to download, feel free to download to experiment with platform. You can also use the demo code as a startup kit for your application.

October 4th in Coding by .

MooTools plugin for Geolocation Tasks – MooGeo

MooGeo is a MooTools plugin that makes accomplishing common geolocation tasks easy.

These tasks include getting detailed info about an IP (country, city, longitude, latitude, etc.), parsing geographical data from text and even finding Flickr photos about a given place.

This is a simple plugin MooTools that answers most of your geo questions.

It wraps the following services in a simple interface:
- Yahoo PlaceMaker
- Yahoo GeoPlanet
- jsonip.appspot.com
- W3C Geo location
- Flickr.places.findLatLon
and wraps them into a single package.

October 2nd in Coding by .

jQuery Plugin for Google Maps – bMap

The bMap jQuery plugin allows you to quickly and easily add mapping to your website. It has been designed from the beginning to handle lots of markers, lots of layers, and custom marker icons.

The plugin can manage a sidebar for you, one with a list of markers, one with a list of layers. The sidebars can be styled with CSS.

The internal Google object is exposed, so you can continue to use all of the power of the Google Maps API. [...]

September 29th in Web Design by .

HTML5 Mapping And Tiling – Tile5

Tile5 is an opensource HTML5 mapping javascript library that provides developers the ability to integrate existing mapping platforms to provide a rich HTML5 experience.

In addition to providing a great API for mapping, Tile5 also excels at building more generic tiling application interfaces.

August 23rd in Coding, JS, Open Source by .

Java Script Library to Make Interactive Maps – Polymaps

Polymaps provides speedy display of multi-zoom datasets over maps, and supports a variety of visual presentations for tiled vector data, in addition to the usual cartography from OpenStreetMap, CloudMade, Bing, and other providers of image-based web maps.

Because Polymaps can load data at a full range of scales, it’s ideal for showing information from country level on down to states, cities, neighborhoods, and individual streets. Because Polymaps uses SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) to display information, you can use familiar, comfortable CSS [...]

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