Comments on: Yahoo Maps Hacks http://www.gisblog.net/webmapping/yahoo-maps-hacks/ Geospatial Information Science - Trends, Tools & Technologies Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:48:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: pat http://www.gisblog.net/webmapping/yahoo-maps-hacks/#comment-5 pat Sun, 20 Nov 2005 16:11:16 +0000 http://www.gisblog.net/?p=3#comment-5 The following link provide a way, to detect user's browser capabilities. The same interface is provided to flash and ajax users. Actually, the services (yahoo, msn, google, ogc) shouldn't care about the technique used to access them. And the user shouldn't care about it as well, because the usability aspects do not differ. The user interface needs to be well designed, the underlying programming language should be hidden to the user. * http://jonaquino.blogspot.com/2005/11/yahoo-maps-restaurant-reviews.html * http://restaurantreviewswithyahoomaps.ning.com/ The following link provide a way, to detect user’s browser capabilities. The same interface is provided to flash and ajax users. Actually, the services (yahoo, msn, google, ogc) shouldn’t care about the technique used to access them. And the user shouldn’t care about it as well, because the usability aspects do not differ. The user interface needs to be well designed, the underlying programming language should be hidden to the user.
* http://jonaquino.blogspot.com/2005/11/yahoo-maps-restaurant-reviews.html
* http://restaurantreviewswithyahoomaps.ning.com/

]]> By: Carsten Keßler http://www.gisblog.net/webmapping/yahoo-maps-hacks/#comment-3 Carsten Keßler Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:58:48 +0000 http://www.gisblog.net/?p=3#comment-3 I think the Flash UI makes sense because it is capable of displaying vector data. But apparently, this feature has not been used. If you zoom in on a map, you can see that they use image maps. And of course, you are right: SVG would make even more sense (if they were using vector data). I was also a bit disappointed that the Flash extension you need to use the Flash API only works with the latest version of Macromedia Flash. However, I have not tried the JS and AJAX APIs yet. I think the Flash UI makes sense because it is capable of displaying vector data. But apparently, this feature has not been used. If you zoom in on a map, you can see that they use image maps.

And of course, you are right: SVG would make even more sense (if they were using vector data). I was also a bit disappointed that the Flash extension you need to use the Flash API only works with the latest version of Macromedia Flash. However, I have not tried the JS and AJAX APIs yet.

]]> By: pat http://www.gisblog.net/webmapping/yahoo-maps-hacks/#comment-2 pat Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:27:43 +0000 http://www.gisblog.net/?p=3#comment-2 Why does the flash interface make more sense than javascript or (for the future) SVG? Flash might be a common tool, but the lack of sophisticated open source IDEs limits the group of users. Javascript might have less potential, but more people are able to just play around with the API and develop the really cool stuff ;) Why does the flash interface make more sense than javascript or (for the future) SVG?
Flash might be a common tool, but the lack of sophisticated open source IDEs limits the group of users. Javascript might have less potential, but more people are able to just play around with the API and develop the really cool stuff ;)

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