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Google Maps

Dynamic location map

Google Maps is a Google service that consists of a Map service application on the Web. It offers images and cartography of sliding Maps, such as satellite images, allowing any Web Site to use many of its characteristics. Today, you can replace your old location image, static or animated flash Map with the famous Google Maps’ cartography, which has more functionality, more details and at a faster loading speed. Possibilities offered by Google Maps are very varied. Since adding markers in a Map, to draw irregular areas (polygons) to determine a particular zone; even it’s a land marking of a rural zone, a Delivery zone or a company’s cover area, marking branches along its delivery zones, etc.

To be able to explain all the possibilities of Google Maps, we have chosen as an example all Farmacity’s branches in Belgrano town. Click here to see the example (Ctrl+click too see it in another window).

Precise markings

Google Maps API uses a Geo codification system to convert a postal address into a geodesic mark. This way, a precise position of the postal addresses to mark the Map is created.

Initial Centered of the Map

The location Map can be centered according to every need. In this example, it was centered in Av. Cabildo and Juramento, in Belgrano town, using an approaching level that is good enough to identify Avenues, Streets and the traffic state.

Views

Possibility to use the default Map view or change it into Satellite or Hybrid (superposition of Map and Satellite views).

Areas markation

This example demonstrate the chance to define marking areas, setting delivery areas for each branch (here, two ‘Farmacity’ orange color areas with blue stroke are marked, for the branch located at Av. Cabildo Avenue 1840 and 2301 Crámer Avenue) within a 10 block radius, respecting the city checkerboard. The color was defined using transparency allowing a correct vision.

Information globe

The information globle was set to display Farmacity isologotype, postal address, Town, City and telephone, apart from different services offered by the selected branch.

Customized icons

Customized icons and shadow icons were created using Farmacity isotype.

Evenly Accesible and User Friendly

Google Maps (different from other technologies), guarantees your location Map will be accessible from most popular browsers (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome, Opera and others), even those who run Safari under iPhone; since there’s no need to use Flash for the dynamism and interactivity that identifies your Map. On the other hand, Google Maps is used by millions of users on the Internet, what makes it a real standard in digital cartography.

XTML Certification and Valid CSS by W3C.org

W3C Consortium’s objective is the creation of Web Standards and Rules. W3C published, since 1994, more than one hundred and ten standards, named W3C Recommendations. W3C is also involved in education and promotion tasks, and software development. For the Web to reach its most potential, most important Web technologies must be compatible to each other and allow any hardware and software used work jointly. W3C refers to this objective as “Web interoperability”. By publishing open type standards (don’t owners) for Web languages and protocols, W3C tries to avoid market fragmentation and, for that reason, Web fragmentation.

Tim Berners-Lee and others, created W3C as a Consortium dedicated to produce consensus related to the Web technologies. Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, while working in the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), has been W3C director since he found it in 1994.

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