Tag Archives: maps

05
Sep 11

Farewell Ovi Maps, Hello Nokia Maps (On iOS And Android Too)

Posted on 5th September 2011 by Gary

In May of this year, Nokia announced the retirement of the Ovi brand and the observant map watchers amongst you may have noticed that pointing your browser of choice at maps.ovi.com now automagically redirects you to the new, shiny maps.nokia.com. … Continue reading →

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05
Sep 11

Farewell Yahoo! Maps API, Hello Nokia Maps API

Posted on 5th September 2011 by Gary

Yahoo’s JavaScript and AJAX API was the first mapping API I ever used and it now seems hard to remember when Yahoo’s API offerings were the dominant player, always iterating and innovating. The Yahoo! API set formed and continued to … Continue reading →

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21
Aug 11

Almost Losing Sight Of The Magic Of (Mobile) Maps

Posted on 21st August 2011 by Gary

Often maligned and ignored, sometimes science fiction writers are bang on the mark. The cognoscenti of the high brow literary world often dismiss science fiction as being not proper writing or even worthy of the label of literature. But sci-fi … Continue reading →

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08
Aug 11

WP Biographia Is But A Quarter Of The Way To WP Mappa

Posted on 8th August 2011 by Gary

In a way, this was all Matt Whatsit‘s fault; he writes very profane and very funny blog posts and reading his recent The Five Stages Of P****d Wife (which you should read if you haven’t already, err, read it) made me … Continue reading →

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14
Jul 11

Mapstraction, Maps and Me

Posted on 14th July 2011 by Gary

It’s been a while since my last blog post; my day job at Nokia has been taking up almost all of my time and what little time has been left has been spent with my family. But in between day … Continue reading →

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