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The idea described below was a submission to the mySociety Call for Proposals 2006. It is a suggestion for a website which meets our criteria, to have a tangible benefit to the civic and community aspects of people's lives. The winning proposal was announced on 27th September 2006; that is the one we are going to implement. You can still read, discuss and add comments to the idea below, or browse all the proposals. Maybe you and/or someone else can get together to implement one. Read more about mySociety.

Linking to Maps. Dynamic
Proposed by Brian Theasby, 7th June 2006

What NEED does this meet?

Linking to Maps. Dynamic.

I would link, if OK and possible to link to Maps, etc.. Looking to link to Dynamic Maps e.g. I do not have to make change, you make updates your end and the map image link on my site updates automatically.

These links would be added, at least to my page (Maps and Travel. Route Planners. How to get there. Bus times, Train Times, Ferry times. Aeroplane Times ( http://www.acomputerportal.com/maps_and_travel.html )) on the site below

A Computer Portal. Freeware, Shareware. Download software. Computer languages and Programming code. Including PERL Scripts and Java Scripts. Webmaster Tools. Internet Marketing, Website promotion. Hardware Help from BIOS to Windows and UNIX.
http://www.acomputerportal.com/index.html

What is the APPROACH?

Add links to map images.

What are the BENEFITS to people?

Provids users with information, and your site with visitors

What is the COMPETITION?

Google Maps and other, see :-

Maps and Travel. Route Planners. How to get there. Bus times, Train Times, Ferry times. Aeroplane Times http://www.acomputerportal.com/maps_and_travel.html

What BUDGETS & LOGISTICS are required?

Free for you.

One response to “Linking to Maps. Dynamic”

  1. Francis Davey says:

    Actually, this is a good, fundamental and general idea. Sadly no-one else has seen this point.

    Having had a go at pledgebank’s latest woeful offering that tries to do geographical locality (but atrociously) its clear how useful it would be to have some open way of describing localities. Not just maps, but to be able to map between places, postcodes, distances and map points.

    Many of the ideas suggested so far, and some already tried by mysociety, would benefit from this kind of data and these kinds of tools being open.

    Francis

    written on July 12th, 2006

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