A new service has appeared on the Mail.Ru portal - interactive geographical maps. Within the framework of the service of
Maps@Mail.Ru, users can search for a building located at a specific address or search for the desired type of object in a specific area.
At the moment, the project contains detailed maps of Moscow, Moscow Region, St. Petersburg and Russia. City maps have house numbering with the ability to search by address. There are also “thematic layers” on which bars, restaurants, cinemas, museums, polyclinics, stadiums and other objects are displayed by the user.
Unfortunately, there are no satellite imagery familiar to
Google Maps . From a technical point of view, a web application works an order of magnitude worse than Google Maps: there is no dragging of the map with the mouse, no absolute coordinates in the URI, no preloading of content in the background, even the program interfaces for accessing the maps have not yet been published.
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The supplier of cartographic materials and software for the project is
CJSC Resident , which since 1993 has been specializing in geographic information systems.