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