Small anniversary - MultiCards half a year

Hello!


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

I recall that today the service is an aggregator of maps of 8 different services: Google Maps, Yandex Maps, Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps, OpenStreetMap, Kosmosnimki, Wikimapia, ProGorod. Moreover, the maps can not only be conveniently viewed (when moving from map to map, the place and scale are remembered), but also to share a link to the desired place. This is the main function, but there are other buns, which are described below.
Curious can see the first post on Habré .

Since that time, not much has changed, but there are some progress. What was added during this period?

1. Most importantly, new maps have been added. Cosmosnimki, Wikimapia, Pro-City. By the way, Pro-Cities uses Rambler.
2. Implemented view of two maps at the same time.
3. I connected the ability to display traffic jams (Yandex and Google), and in the mode of displaying two cards too. Those. on both at the same time.
4. Added a raster map layers from my beloved Osik to the Yandex map. Leningrad region and Karelia. Karelia is not quite the General Staff, but close to it. The purpose of making such cards is not, I will lay out as far as possible. To view you need to tyrknite on the button "More", while in the mode of Yandex-maps.
5. Entering links from Yandex maps and Google. Let me explain - if you look at the map on Google, you can get a link there and paste it on mmaps in order to continue viewing from the same place.
6. Enter coordinates in different formats. Often found on the Internet - a place with such and such coordinates. And how to look? And now everything is simple - copied coordinates, entered on mmaps and that's it :) Coordinates can be in three common variants - Degrees, Deg.Min, Deg.Min.Sec
7. If we can enter coordinates, then why not get them? Get the coordinates as you can in three options. In general, in conjunction with paragraph 6, we got a kind of coordinate converter.
8. You can get some information about the place we are viewing: current time, date, GMT, sunrise, sunset. This refers to the point in the center of the map.
9. Place in the center can be saved as a dot to a file in kml, wpt, gpx formats. Well, this is for those who know why it is :)
10. Now you can not only share the link in any social programs, but also insert the entire card onto your website or blog. Specially adapted page format for display in iframe. You can also copy the embed code in a couple of clicks.
11. The whole new direction - interesting places on the map. Basically, these are two types of places - just known places and something curious, which can be seen on maps.
12. Well, started a blog . However, not only the blog - I also report on the news on Twitter and via rss . The service has a lot of opportunities, so now I try to describe each of them in detail in the blog. Something like FAQ turns out.
13. I almost forgot - a little rebranded. Previously, mmaps was deciphered as Many Maps, now I try to indicate Multi Maps everywhere. Somehow melodious, and the domain name allows.

I will not talk about plans. I will mention one important thing: many ask to connect mail.ru cards, but they do not have an API. He wrote a request and received a reply: “ Unfortunately, the Map API’s project has no public API yet. ” The word “for now” gives us some hope.
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And by the way, analyzing google analistic (pun, however), noticed that there is an opinion - what for it is necessary, if there is a SAS . Planet ? Surely a similar question will be comments, so I answer right away - I myself like this program, I use it in certain situations. And many thanks to the author for her creation. But there is still a difference between the program and the online service, and not every Windows.

Some screenshots:

Traffic jams on Google and Yandex



Automatic route mapping on Pro-City map



Section of interesting places

In the comments to the first post many ideas were expressed that I tried to implement, therefore, in conclusion, I would like to ask your opinion on what opportunities it would be worth adding that it is not very convenient to implement and just to listen to any wishes. Thank.