Small anniversary Multicarta half-year

Hello!


Today for me and Multicard is a rather important date: exactly a half-year ago, October 8, 2010 (by the way, it was also a Friday), I registered the domain mmaps.net and posted the first version of the site.

Let me remind you that today the service is an aggregator of cards 8 different services: Google Maps, Yandex Maps, Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps, OpenStreetMap, Kosmosnimki, Wikimapia, ProGorod. Moreover, the card can not only easy to see (when you move from card to card to remember the place and scale), but also to share the link to the right place. This is the main function, but there are other buns, of which below.
The curious can watch the first post on habré.

Since that time it has not changed very much, but there is progress. What was added during this period?

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1. — added new maps. Kosmosnimki, Wikimapia, Pro-Town. By the way, maps of the City enjoys a Rambler.
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2. has the mode of viewing two maps at the same time.
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3. Connected the ability to display traffic (Yandex and Google), and in the mode of displaying two maps too. Ie both at the same time.
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4. On the map Yandex added layers of raster maps from my favorite FSP. Leningrad region and Karelia. Karelia is not quite the General staff, but close to it. The focus of making such maps do not, will spread as much as possible. To view you need to darknut on the button "More" while in preview, Yandex maps.
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5. enter the reference from the maps Yandex and Google. Let me explain — if you look at the map on Google, you can get the link and paste it on mmaps in order to continue viewing from the same place.
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6. Enter coordinates in various formats. Often found on the Internet — the place with those coordinates. And how to see it? And now it's all just copied the coordinates entered on the mmaps and all :) the Coordinates can be in three common variants — Degrees, Deg.Min, Deg.Min.Sec
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7. If you can enter the coordinates, then why not to? To get the coordinates as it is possible in three variants. In General, in conjunction with paragraph 6, it turned out a kind of Converter of coordinates.
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8. On the place that we review you can get some information: current time, date, GMT, sunrise, sunset. Meaning the information point in the center of the map.
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9. place in the centre can be saved in a point file formats kml, wpt, gpx. Well, it's for those who know why they care :)
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10. Now you can not only share the link in all social networks, but to fully insert the card on your website or blog. Specially adapted format the page to show in iframe. Copy and paste the embed code you can also a few clicks.
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11. a Whole new direction — interesting places on the map. Basically it is two types of places — just famous places and something interesting transpiring on the cards.
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12. and started blog. However, not only a blog about news just reported on Twitter and through rss. The service has accumulated quite a lot, so I try now to describe the blog in detail each of them. Something like a FAQ is obtained.

I Almost forgot — a little rebranders. Earlier mmaps stood for Many Maps, now trying everywhere to specify Multi Maps. Somehow harmonious, and the domain name allows.

plans will not speak. About the only one important things to mention: please connect a card mail.ru but they have no API. Request they wrote, the answer was: "unfortunately, the public API of the project Карты@Mail.ru yet." the Word "is" gives us some hope.

And by the way, analyzing the Google of analistic (pun intended, however), I noticed that there is an opinion — what for it is necessary, if there is a the SAS.Planet? Surely such a question is the comments, so respond right away — I like this program, I use it in certain situations. And a huge thank you to the author for its creation. But there is still a difference between the program and online service, and not everyone has Windows.

Some screenshots:

Traffic on Google and Yandex



Automatic routes on the map About the City



Section interesting places

In the comments to the first post, it was a lot of ideas that I tried to implement, so, in conclusion, I would like to ask your opinion on what features would be worth adding, what is implemented is not very convenient and it is simple to listen to any suggestions. Thank you.

Article based on information from habrahabr.ru