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Easy Google Maps

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We aim to build a more accessible map interface that may be used by people regardless of age or ability, based on the work done on the Easy YouTube Player. So far we've built an alternative way of accessing Google Maps using the Google Maps API.

 

At the end of the hack day, we managed to finish a prototype, but we want to do some tidying before releasing a live version of the map. In the meantime, the code has been moved into a Google Code project called "accessible maps". Updates and info will continue to be posted here.

 

 

Hack day team

 

Jon Gibbins

Ann McMeekin

Andy Ronksley

Marco Ranon

Samantha Roach

Antonia Hyde

Gilles Ruppert

 

 

 

Resources

 

Useful example of new Google Maps controls from Derek Featherstone:

http://ironfeathers.ca/routes/18/

 

Google Maps documentation

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/

 

Google Maps API reference (objects and methods):

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html

 

Mapki, useful general Google Maps resource:

http://mapki.com/wiki/

 

 

Comments (4)

Gilles Ruppert said

at 5:12 pm on Sep 20, 2008

It would be great if you could set up an svn repository. http://www.assembla.com/ is a free service that has a wiki, trac, bug reporting engine & svn of course.
Let us know how it goes. Would be more than happy to chip with some coding/cleaning up/refining if people think this is a useful service

dotjay said

at 9:34 pm on Sep 22, 2008

Thanks for your help with the directions stuff, Gilles. I'm going to move the code into a Google Code project and keep the notes on this wiki, I think. I'll email around about it soon and include you in that.

Gilles Ruppert said

at 9:44 pm on Sep 23, 2008

sounds good. Looking forward to do some work on it & hopefully do something that's useful for the project

dotjay said

at 11:04 am on Sep 25, 2008

I've added the code we worked on at Scripting Enabled to a Google Code project here:
http://code.google.com/p/accessible-maps/

A live version to follow soon. :)

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