User-Generated Animation
I’m happy to introduce MapMyGlobe’s new feature: the ability to animate transitions between frames, i.e. to zoom or unzoom smoothly instead of just switching the viewport to a different location. Right now, this transition is computed from just the frames’ view centers and zoom levels, however, I don’t exclude the possibility of a finer-grained control by the user in the future. Until then, try it out, it’s pretty cool…
Actually, it looks like Google might be willing to roll out a similar user-generated animation feature in their MyMaps app as well. One proof of that being Mark Clark of Google’s London Underground map. He actually uses the same map.panTo() GMaps function that we do.
By the way, it looks like another huge trend might just have emerged at Google Maps/Earth. I’m speaking of the incorporation of imagery from the Southern California fires into Google Earth. As far as I know, it is the first time that Google’s imagery team publishes map tiles relevant to the news, at such a large scale, and as quickly as that. Which makes me think that at some point, any big event visible from the sky will be available on the web almost in real-time…
October 29th, 2007 at 11:58 am
On the complex, competitive relationship between Google Maps and the apps that use their API: this article on GigaOM
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