Daft.ie Mapping Mash-up site

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Any opinions on the new mapping facility added to the Daft.ie site? It's a pretty good example of what's been termed Web 2.0 development.

http://www.daft.ie/maps/index.daft

It makes the MyHome mapping facility look pretty poor in comparison.

That said the comparison isn't really fair as a lot of what makes the Daft site work so well is the Google imagery which is probably being served out by some kind of super server, whilst the MyHome imagry is probably getting pulled from a Comadore 64.
 
Thats the same Google Map Whizzbang used for his www.pumps.ie site last year.

Its nothing special at all , they cluster the properties around 'towns' and then do not require the EAs to provide proper grid refs to show where the houses are.

Some places are in the bloody SEA !!!!

Where is the topo ?
 
Something similar for the Dart [broken link removed] be nice if we could have this for Dublin bus.It's very good stuff from google, with maps & google earth I think they'll take over the world!!!
 
Didn't realise that the DART tracker was now working off live realtime data and not the timetables. Nice!
 
2Pack said:
its simply the timetable 'reloaded' :D
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It's not the timetable reloaded. There's a real time stream that you can hook into off the Irish Rail site.

2Pack said:
Its nothing special at all , they cluster the properties around 'towns' and then do not require the EAs to provide proper grid refs to show where the houses are.

Some places are in the bloody SEA !!!!

Where is the topo ?
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The properties are only clustered at high level views. Once you zoom in they appear at their correct spatial position. Otherwise the map would just be a sea of dots, would look awfull and take forever to load. Aparently they got the data off An Post.

[broken link removed]

I don't think topological data would be terribly usefull for the site.

I have no connection to either site.
 
well then IR are helping the terrorists , the map is almost irrelevant . The daft map is quick unlike many google map overlay projects
 
2Pack said:
The daft map is quick unlike many google map overlay projects
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This is definately down to the way they are clustering the houses and only displaying them at their correct coordinates when you get to a sensible zoom level.
 
The MyHome site has updated it's mapping tool. It's a lot better but still nowhere near as good as the daft mapping facility. The local ameneties tool is good but the lack of continuous panning will make it a pig to use over a dial up.
 
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