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16. October 2004

New map service by search.ch
Software (wiki) - urs @ 17:44:22

search.ch has now reworked their map-service [1]. What really amazes me is the the simple redirection of URIs to locations. They avoided to add a session id to the URI which allows a proper handling of links. Thank you Berni ;)

Some examples that I tried out:

- http://map.search.ch/bern
- http://map.search.ch/3012
- http://map.search.ch/3012-bern/neubrueckstrasse-43
- http://map.search.ch/schatzalp
- http://map.search.ch/schatzalp?z=64
- http://map.search.ch/schatzalp?b=low
- http://map.search.ch/schatzalp?p=1
- http://map.search.ch/davos?x=-160&y=-120&z=200&p=640x480

The map service is already interconnected to the telephone search engine; nice. Some requests that were to read in the comments to the post [1] were mentioning a "from-to" track feature and more information on the locations in the streets et.al. Let us see, what the search.ch team comes up with next.

Update: There are some helpful services around regarding the transformation of a knows long-lat to a resulting map etc. [2,3,4]

[1] http://about.search.ch/archives/2004/10/08/neues-mapsearchch/
[2] http://www.mapquest.com/maps/latlong.adp
[3] http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~cvm/latlon_find_location.html
[4] http://www.maporama.com