Cool thing from MSR: MapCruncher

by on May 16, 2006

Create your own personalized mashups with MapCruncher. Lots of fun to play with.

Andrew

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Martin Davidsson

Interesting. We've been working on the same kind of thing for Google Maps. It's fun to see Microsoft Research spending time on a similar project. We even did some of the same campuses (UCLA, UW, UCSB). They're missing Stanford though (http://www.stanford.edu/hpcgi/map/index.pl) ;)

Sam Sethi

Hi Robert

I thought you would not like to any Microsoft product that did not work with Firefox. Well in the help notes it states clearly that MapCruncher does not work with Firefox. Also I just don't get the product. I would much prefer the overlay objects to be XHTML microformat coed or widgets os that they can bel linked or mashed up. The .yum files created by Mapcruncher don't connect to anything I know. Also shouldn't the product be called Mapcrunchr to be seriously web 2.0 ;-)

frank rizzo

where in the notes does it say that? the mapcruncher galleries work fine for me in firefox.