Help needed… mobile version of useamap

Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by vinny.

Hi all,

We are currently beta testing a mobile version of Useamap.com and we need your help. I would love to hear some feedback on it, whats good,bad and indifferent about it. Let me know how easy it is to use. Just point your mobile device to http://useamap.com or else go to http://mob.useamap.com.
Best Regards,

Vinny Glennon

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Putting your location onto your website

Posted on April 27th, 2008 by vinny.

Hi All,

Before this, if you wanted to add your map onto your website, you could put the following iframe code into your website, for example for useamap.com/ourplace it would be

iframe width="500" scrolling="no" height="300" frameborder="0" xsrc="http://useamap.com/frame/500/300/ourplace

But a lot of users complained that this took too long to load, so now you can put into just the basic image using very similar code. This loads 100 times faster, and just shows the location of your event. Example code would be

iframe width="400" scrolling="no" height="300" frameborder="0" xsrc="http://useamap.com/static/400/300/ourplacewhich shows as this on your page

All you are doing is replacing the word frame with static. All anyone who does not have Javascript enabled,and you are using the non static Google maps, they will now be showed the static image instead!

To get the code for this, go your saved map location or create a new map if you have not done so already. Then click the button which says Embed Map, and follow from there.

Keep your feedback rolling in,

Best Regards,

Vinny Glennon

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Front page on ENN and website of the week

Posted on August 29th, 2007 by vinny.

For all our Irish Readers, the site has just made the pick of the week from the respectable Irish News source: enn.ie

Full Article here:

Useamap.com is a classic little bit of Web 2.0 from an Irish outfit. They’ve taken the API friendly nature of various online map solutions and blended them into one easy-to-set-up interface where you can generate a local map using Google, Virtual Earth or Yahoo Maps data, whilst giving it a short address that’s easy to remember. You can even dynamically swap between the different map providers after the map’s been generated. This is particularly handy where some providers have better satellite imagery than others. Very nice work. Go check it out.
Thanks a million lads!:) To see other press releases, you can see them along the right hand side other site reviews. If there is a site review which I do not have mentioned, please let me know at vinny@useamap.com

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Use A Map Updates and Facebook

Posted on August 11th, 2007 by vinny.

Hi again,Work has been continuing in the background on Useamap, for you the user every week. You can now see how far ‘as the crow flies’ your saved map location is from any place on earth. This appears in the popup window when you click on a map. You can now also save your directions with a short url. So when you put driving directions onto your map, you will also get a short url like http://useamap.com/directions/61 to share easily with others.

If you use Facebook(some 30 million users out there, I think, and growing) , you can now create maps for free within Facebook by going to http://apps.facebook.com/useamap/ . This will let you put mini maps of your planned locations onto your Facebook profile. While there are a number of map based sites on Facebook(Cities I visited, places I have been) none allow you to show your location and get driving directions to it. You can also map roughly where all your friends are on Facebook, so that visually, you can see who is in what of Ireland or how they are spread across the globe. I believe location, location, location will be the key aspect of peoples internet behavior over the coming year, Go on, give it a test drive.

Vinny

Useamap Team

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100,000 hits

Posted on August 11th, 2007 by vinny.

Hi all,

We have just hit 100,000 generated maps on Useamap.com which is very exciting. The next milestone is the 1 million mark which hopefully we will reach over the next 3 months. Thank you very much for your support and as always, if you have feedback, please drop a mail so that we can continue to improve the service for all users.

Vinny

Use A Map Team

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1000 Maps created!

Posted on December 20th, 2006 by vinny.

UseAMap.com has just reached over 1000 separate maps created from its website, useamap.com . Thanks to everyone for their input and I really hope I can keep receiving your feedback. I have set up a press page (link on the left) which has all the reviews, etc of this application that I could find on the internet.

Thanks Again,

Vinny

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Feature List

Posted on December 20th, 2006 by vinny.

As a recap for old and new users to the system, here is a list of features that UseAMap currently offers to its users:

  • Link back to your site (so that a person can quickly get to your site, also handy as an extra link to your site)
  • Detailed Traveling Directions
  • Ability to Save/Print the Directions
  • Maps are printable
  • Maps can resized to suit the speed of your connection
  • Map show you your general location when it loads, no need to pick your country,etc
  • All the code needed to embed your saved map at any size you want, onto your own website. Very useful for businesses, as it impacts the necessary information of your business location to the customer, while yet keeping the customer on your site.
  • Image Gallery with unlimited albums and photos
  • Easy to remember web address to help you share your map with others.
  • Being able to turn on/off comments at the bottom of your map
  • A forgotten password facility
    Link to quickly email your link to any friend
  • Tag Clouds to see the most common and recent map descriptions
  • Search Facility so you can see all maps that use certain map descriptions.
    Ability to save your map as a satellite photo/map or a mixture of both. Also saves the zoom level that the map was created with.
  • Free

If you are having any problems using any of the above features, please email me, and I will be happy to assist you.

Vinny

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Put the map onto your own website. Also new Photo Gallery.

Posted on December 20th, 2006 by vinny.

A new feature allows users to quickly add their map to useamap.com. A sample page with just the small map can be seen here. As you see it is the sample map based at UseAMap.com/sample. Any changes to your Map on UseAMap.com will be reflected automatically on your smaller map on your own website. This is quite useful for businesses, as it impacts the necessary information of your business location to the customer, while yet keeping the customer on your site. Just Click on Embed Map to use this feature.

For all the professional and hobby photographers out there, you can now upload as many albums of images as you like to UseAMap.com. In fact to make it , you can just upload a zip file of all your images, and the system will put them into the correct album for you. For more information, click on the ‘Add Pictures’ link or to see it in action, click ‘Manage Your Photo Albums’ after you have logged in.

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Get Detailed Driving Directions

Posted on November 21st, 2006 by vinny.

A major upgrade in the form of map directions has now been completed. Go to any saved map, i.e. http://useamap.com/jeebers. Now click anywhere on the map and then select one of the choices that appear. You will now be given detailed road directions how to get to/from your selected location. These can be printed out or saved onto useamap.com itself. The directions will include a small map for each part of the way as well as an overall summary for your journey.

This is very useful for anyone thinking of putting a Contact Us link onto their web page as now full directions will be provided for that user. This is the first time I have seen these two mapping solutions used together, and I think it works really well. Please let me know of any feedback as always.

Best Regards,
Vincent Glennon

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Other features added…

Posted on November 21st, 2006 by vinny.

Useamap.com is now working correctly for the new Internet Explorer 7. When a new map is created, the zoom level and map type is now also saved. Thanks very much to Kevin Bohanna for this idea. After a map is saved, the zoom level and map type (Satellite, Normal or Hybrid) can be quickly changed from within the edit profile screen.

Finally maps can now have a link at the top of it that goes to another site. For companies again, this can direct users to a specific page and provide websites with an additional link. For users, a link can be placed to something that will interest the people that are using the map, eg.. Where to get the car to do the road trip.

Best Regards,

Vincent Glennon

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