Archive for February, 2008
Google Maps – Animated Directions – Fun!
Posted by Kieran McCarthy in Bits Of Code, Google Maps on February 16, 2008
I have been playing around with Google Maps lately and have come across a few scripts I had from a few months back… This is a bit of fun!
[Click Here to try out Google Maps animated directions]
What this does is you input a start location and an end destination in the input boxes, press the start button and watch the journey animated with a small van icon.
It will display your current speed, mph, road names & routes as it plods along call it “sat nav” on the cheap… 
I have a preset journey leaving from Patrick’s St, Cork, Ireland going to The Square, Blarney, Cork, Ireland but you can change the start and finish locations to your own liking.
What’s also interesting about this map is it will take you across channels e.g. I put Rosslare as start and Swansea as finish and it took me across the proper channel route and then continued on the roads in the UK!
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Busy, Busy, Busy!
Posted by Kieran McCarthy in Personal on February 7, 2008
Just a quick post to say I’ve been “up the walls” with various projects over the past few weeks, a nice tutorial is on its way of my experiences with Google Maps. I’ve been implementing the maps on a property site I’m developing at the moment and had a bit of fun pushing the possibilities there. Also started teaching “Digital Photography” & “Webpage Design” at the local school, these are adult night classes and take some time to prepare but I really like the challenge and of course returning to the basics myself.
VectorMagic Link
I came across this really handy site to convert: PG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF files to vector format, it’s a free online auto-tracer.
Its dead handy if you have a low quailty image or small image of a logo that you need to vectorise for resizing etc. Out put files can be: EPS, SVG, PNG
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