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Tools creating tiles to use Google Maps API for posting large images

If you are posting a large image on the web, you may want to give the user chance to zoom the image without any limits. Google Maps are great example - you just zoom in or out to get the right detail of view.

You may have seen usage of Google Maps API as an image viewer - you cut up very large images into tiles that than work with the Google Maps viewer interface. Look at this example, Google also used this technique to present Google+ project.

I have encountered three tools that can do this, only tested the first one.

Google Maps Image Cutter - created by University College London.

Google Maps Tile Cutter script for Adobe Photoshop - created by Bram(us) Van Damme (on Twitter)

MapCruncher created by Microsoft Research - read the tutorial.

#google maps #tiles

On usage of Facebook location features. More on expanding Facebook location APIs there: http://www.insidefacebook.com/2012/04/05/200m-users-include-location-in-facebook-posts-company-looks-to-expand-location-apis/

Foursquare acqusition offer, Dennis' career and more, interesting links!

Comprehensive series of articles on geosocial services, published some time ago, but still valuable.

Beautifull Storytelling Geosocial Case Studies

Storytelling with Geosocial

View more presentations from Oliver Woods

#visualization #slideshare

This is detailed table of information shared on Foursquare with default privacy settings.

#Visualization #mobile #tracking #epic #opensource

Video interview with Dennis Crowley, just in the beginning, he mentions tons of interesting numbers on the service - like API calls and user activity.

Up to 20 million known smartphone users have downloaded geo-social apps, there are 90 million smartphone users aged 13 or older in the U.S. and more stats

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles! (by foursquare HQ)

#foursquare #list #mashup #google maps

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