http://www.map-runner.com/blog News from the map runner team Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:52:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As many of you will know map runner has been built using the Google Maps api (Application Program Interface) allowing us to offer you, the map runner, high quality maps & satellite images of the UK (and the rest of the world) so that we can all plot, save and ... http://www.map-runner.com/blog/?p=16 Back on May 23rd we did a post about our map runner 'soft-launch'. Runners who use the site may have noticed we never really did a hard launch. This hasn't been a problem, and it seems we underestimated the number of people who would use this site ... http://www.map-runner.com/blog/?p=14 We are currently featured on the Web2.0 listing site 'Neo Binaries' - click here: Map Runner. It looks like we have been accepted as an official 'web2.0' website as no one has contested us being on there which is nice. Web2.0 is second coming of the web, where users ... http://www.map-runner.com/blog/?p=15 We are now getting maps added from all over the world including the U.S., France, Germany and India, and so we would like to say hi to all our overseas users, and hope that they are enjoying the site! We are aware however, that you will find it a little more ... http://www.map-runner.com/blog/?p=12 We're looking to continually develop this site and the first (of hopefully many) site updates have just been released. We've added the following features: Calculate how many calories you burn with our new 'workout calculator'. This is displayed with each map and gives you an estimate of how many ... http://www.map-runner.com/blog/?p=11 So you are looking at a route someone else has added and you wonder, 'what is it like to run through those streets?'. Well wonder no more, we have just finished integrating Flickr's API into the site. This means that when you click on some routes (more and ... http://www.map-runner.com/blog/?p=9 Google has just released their latest addition to the Google software kit - the Google maps streetview. What is this? Well, it seems that google has sent a van equipped with multiple cameras on it's roof around some cities in America (New York, Denver, San Francisco, Las Vegas ... http://www.map-runner.com/blog/?p=8 It seems that many sites that offer the same kind of service that we do, but don't have Google maps on the homepage. We put it on the homepage as the runs are the most important aspect of what we are trying to do. Some sites try and ... http://www.map-runner.com/blog/?p=7 Map Runner has gone live! As the title suggests, it is a soft launch to friends and insiders. Hopefully by sharing it with a wider audience any errors will come to the surface. Google Analytics seems very helpful in this area as you can place goals and then ... http://www.map-runner.com/blog/?p=6 Version 2 of the Google Maps API provides a function to calculate the distance between two points. To use it to calculate the distance in metres between two GLatLng objects, we write Point1.distanceFrom(Point2). This will return the distance calculated in metres which can then be rounded to a number of ... http://www.map-runner.com/blog/?p=4