Blog - MapMyGlobe

Just registered MapMyGlobe CMS (the software that runs www.mapmyglobe.com) on SourceForge.net. I haven’t released an up-to-date version of the source code yet, though I’ll do it pretty soon. The project’s UNIX name is mapmyglobe, and the project’s page can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mapmyglobe/. Please contribute!

Registering an Open-source project on SourceForge gives you Shell access to a Web and CVS/SVN server, so, out of curiosity, I used it to list the projects whose names start with map. There are 128 of them (out of 171,554 total), the complete list being:

map, map2owl, map2xml, map3bspc, map4use, map500conv, mapaaudio, mapache,
mapache-weblog, mapalyzer, mapaphoto, mapassembler, mapasuta, mapatorium,
mapbased, mapbender, map-blog, mapbox, mapbrowser, mapbuddy, mapbuilder,
mapcal, map-catalog, mapchan, map-connector, mapcraft, mapcreator,
mapdataviewer, mapdb, mapdload, mapdown-bf, mapdrive, mapdrv, mapeasy,
mapeaudio, mapeb200, mapedit, mapeditor, mapeggeographic, mapfs, map-fu,
mapgen, mapgrabber, mapi, mapi2pop3, mapiator, mapifier, mapify, mapip, mapipoz,
mapis, mapivi, mapix, mapkenzie, maple, maple3-itoc, maplens, mapleos, mapletree,
map-lib, maplincad, maplinx, maplist, mapmagick, mapmakerexpress, mapmanager,
mapmaster, mapmaudio, mapme, mapmvideo, mapmyglobe, mapnav, mapnzap, mapo,
mapobject, mapoelrooster, map-o-linux, mapomatix, maponto, maporlite, mapper,
mapper4j, mapperframework, mapphotogallery, mappingapi, mappingwidgets, mappit,
mapplet3d, mapplus-thin, mappo, map-pocket, mappoint4j, mapp-w, mappy,
mapquant, mapreader, maprec, mapreduce-cell, maprequest, maps, maps2winbugs,
mapscout, mapserver-nzeco, mapservice-dump, mapsnack, maps-n-dragons,
mapson, mapsplitter, mapspork, maps-schoolsys, mapstedi, mapster, mapstitch,
mapstorer, mapstudio, mapsurfer, maptales-mobile, maptoogremesh,
maptoolstokgen, mapuche, mapuched, mapwiki, mapwindowgis, mapwizard, mapx,
map-x, mapxor, mapyrus

Among them, some are empty, some are pretty basic or pretty old pieces of code, and some are very interesting. One of the latter is map-blog, a “Php dynamic web site with Maps Google Api to provide localisation. It is a blog, with your travel itinerary on a map. Each plot contains date, text, video, and picture. User navigates on the blog by clicking the plot on the map.“. It still seems pretty rough at the edges, but still, it’s nice to see that what we are working on here at MapMyGlobe could be of interest to some

MapMyGlobe got a little bit too quiet lately, mainly because I’ve been very busy with school and then had to relax and enjoy my Christmas break… but I still think this project can turn into something nice.

That’s why I’m looking for a partner. I’m looking for somebody who likes the concept and who would like to advertise and to make some noise for it. My goal is not to make money out of it, but if one day the app attracts a reasonable amount of people it would definitely be nice and rewarding. If you’re interested let me know.

Moreover, I want to release the code as open-source. If you want to have a look at it shoot me an email at mapmyglobe @ gmail.com and I’ll send it your way. And if you improve it I’ll be glad to incorporate your changes into the site

Just a short post today to introduce the blog’s new header design. The Google Maps screenshots are a reference to the importance of the GMaps API in my web application, mapmyglobe.com. Right now the banner rotates between 4 different locations, which are important to me, because they are the places where this web app will have been conceived and built

But then I found out that the blog’s title and catchphrase were very difficult to read. Unfortunately CSS implementation still lacks text-stroke (text displayed on a white surrounding that makes it easier to read, like the text on the GMaps layers). So I’ve put together a quick javascript-and-CSS hack to have any text element that I want being displayed with a stroke. In my case I am stroking the blog’s title and tagline. This hack perfectly exemplifies DOM manipulation’s power, which is what I wrote about last time, so I thought I would write something about it. I’ve made it available right here: Text Stroke effect with Javascript and CSS.

Other than that, the project is moving along nicely, with some major refactoring going on right now… More on that later on.