towards kick-ass user interfaces...
i have started to beleive that any information that is represented as text in an app is begging to be shown in more engaging way!
when i showed the user interface of an internal project that i am currently working on (which deals with status of various project across thoughtworks) to rajesh, representing location info as points on a map was one of his many suggestions. it seemed interesting... jude (karan singh) and me pounced on the problem.... and boy it was a fun ride!
we found a flash map that uses a meta-data file containg the lattitude and longitude of the points to be shown... converting location to lattitude and longitude seemed challenging.... finally managed to write a program that uses google maps and some other raw data to retrieve the lattitude and longitude.
of course, i cant display our project info here... but i made a map of all the people in my college gang with links to thier blogs.... u can zoom to a particular location by drawing a rectangle on the map... go play with it :-)
click here for a larger view.
as rajesh said... it will be great if we can generalize this interface to support other kinda maps, maybe a floor plan of our office showing where each person is working.... any more ideas?
when i showed the user interface of an internal project that i am currently working on (which deals with status of various project across thoughtworks) to rajesh, representing location info as points on a map was one of his many suggestions. it seemed interesting... jude (karan singh) and me pounced on the problem.... and boy it was a fun ride!
we found a flash map that uses a meta-data file containg the lattitude and longitude of the points to be shown... converting location to lattitude and longitude seemed challenging.... finally managed to write a program that uses google maps and some other raw data to retrieve the lattitude and longitude.
of course, i cant display our project info here... but i made a map of all the people in my college gang with links to thier blogs.... u can zoom to a particular location by drawing a rectangle on the map... go play with it :-)
click here for a larger view.
as rajesh said... it will be great if we can generalize this interface to support other kinda maps, maybe a floor plan of our office showing where each person is working.... any more ideas?
posted by karthik c at 12:58 AM
8 Comments:
Chindi Chitranna devaruu :).
Helkodo heng madide google jothe link antha...
heya. howz u? Any new photographs/projects?
nice man .. nice .
I want to know how U did that maps thing.
super cool thing! neat job chinnu.
was playing with it for a loooooooong time :-)
glad u guys like it :-)
we used google maps to retrieve the lattitude and longitude info for a particular locaton.
google maps returns results in xml containing this info when u make a request to it. for instance, take a look at the source-code of the page that's returned from http://maps.google.com/maps?q=chicago&output=js
Lo Karu,
I had been avoiding to read tech stuff :) since I had gotten bored of it!!!
But hengo maadya idanella... solpa details kodu moms... level aagide dudu...
lo blog update maado !!! illandre rust hididu, there wont be any ass left to kick !
I am satisfied that you simply shared this useful information with us.
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