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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