Sunday, August 24, 2008
20:23 by FoxTwo A couple of posts ago, I wrote about gothere.sg. In a nutshell, it's replacement to Streetdirectory.com, especially now that the latter has splattered adverts everywhere, including right smack in the middle of the map you're looking at. Irritating as hell.
As a quick update, since Monday, 18 Aug, gothere.sg has introduced a new feature - embeddable maps! Now I think some of you can still remember - in the past, you used Streetdirectory.com to indicate your location and pasted a small portion of the map onto your website so people can find you.
Gothere.sg went a bit further. Full interactivity in its embeddable versions! Think of "youtube" but now, it's with maps. As an example, I'll embed one below:
In the map above, I selected my start point as Compass Point (Sengkang's Interchange) and my destination as Singapore Expo.
You can drag it, view it, put pins on it, and so on. One great use I can think of, is for us bloggers to recommend new-found makan places! Easy, no need to describe until face green green (local hokkien version - bin chi chi). Just find a location, stick a pin on it, and start describing in the embedded map.
For the more mobile among us - gothere.sg has a mobile version. Just point your phone's browser to http://gothere.sg/m and you're all set! Of course, take note that the mobile version is a cut-down version, saving you in transfer bytes and thus, air-time costs.
20:23 by FoxTwo A couple of posts ago, I wrote about gothere.sg. In a nutshell, it's replacement to Streetdirectory.com, especially now that the latter has splattered adverts everywhere, including right smack in the middle of the map you're looking at. Irritating as hell.
As a quick update, since Monday, 18 Aug, gothere.sg has introduced a new feature - embeddable maps! Now I think some of you can still remember - in the past, you used Streetdirectory.com to indicate your location and pasted a small portion of the map onto your website so people can find you.
Gothere.sg went a bit further. Full interactivity in its embeddable versions! Think of "youtube" but now, it's with maps. As an example, I'll embed one below:
In the map above, I selected my start point as Compass Point (Sengkang's Interchange) and my destination as Singapore Expo.
You can drag it, view it, put pins on it, and so on. One great use I can think of, is for us bloggers to recommend new-found makan places! Easy, no need to describe until face green green (local hokkien version - bin chi chi). Just find a location, stick a pin on it, and start describing in the embedded map.
For the more mobile among us - gothere.sg has a mobile version. Just point your phone's browser to http://gothere.sg/m and you're all set! Of course, take note that the mobile version is a cut-down version, saving you in transfer bytes and thus, air-time costs.
