Monday 14th May 2007
Due to popular demand - well, one person asked for it - I have added (reverse) geocoding to my map application. In plain English, this means that you can enter your address and the application will zoom to that location on the map; hopefully, this will be less painful than having to get to your starting point by dragging/zooming around. Currently this only works for U.S. addresses as - as far as I am aware - the Google Maps API only supports U.S. addresses.
BBC News: Web 2.0 ‘distracts good design’
Check out some of the funky graphic animations on this guy’s web page - scroll down to the “Research” section; the animations start there.
May 14th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
UK geocoding isn’t available through the API due to licensing reasons. There are some workarounds though:
http://www.tomanthony.co.uk/blog/geocoding-uk-postcodes-with-google-map-api/