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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Here’s some examples of the things you can do with Mapstraction, and I’m open to any ideas you might have… if you know of any useful sources of kml / geoRSS, or anything that can produce them that would be good to know about.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The basic maps wizard needs lat, lng, zoom to position and zoom a map. You can choose from google, yahoo, open layer or Microsoft for the map provider. I think I will build some sort of visual control for selecting lat and lng, because it’s a bit of a pain.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=377 height=326 id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CCE7E0.6C1C5B30"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Optional properties are <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Flickr search, which will add all the photos to the maps that match your search: here’s the tried and tested ‘cuillin’ search:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=377 height=296 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image006.jpg@01CCE7E0.6C1C5B30"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Or you can add layers of .kml or geoRSS: here’s earthquake activity in the last week:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=377 height=296 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image007.jpg@01CCE7E0.6C1C5B30"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Some of the mapping does some cool stuff, like 3D in the bing maps:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=375 height=294 id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image008.jpg@01CCE7E0.6C1C5B30"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>