Just a quick note to point any mapping geeks out there to the inclusion of Ordnance Survey maps in Multimap’s free mapping API. These are the 1:50000 Landranger maps so popular amongst walkers, hikers and anyone who took Geography lessons at school.
This is a nice little inclusion to the API, and I look forward to seeing people taking advantage of it in the UK. It’s probably worth mentioning again that you can also use the following bookmarklet to switch on Open Street Map data for the Multimap website as well as other Multimap API powered apps.
%20{%20var%20map;%20if(%20self.MMWCore%20)%20{%20map%20=%20self.MMWCore.UI.Mapviewer.map;%20}%20if(%20!%20map%20)%20{%20%20map%20=%20window.mapviewer;%20}%20if(%20!%20map%20)%20return;var%20custom_map_types%20=%20{%20'mapnik'%20:%20{%20'label'%20:%20'Mapnik',%20'callback'%20:%20function(%20a,%20b%20)%20{%20return%20'http://tile.openstreetmap.org/test/'+(b-1)+'/'+a.x+'/'+a.y+'.png';%20}%20},%20'osmarender'%20:%20{%20'label'%20:%20'OsmaRender',%20'callback'%20:%20function(%20a,%20b%20)%20{%20return%20'http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/Tiles/tile.php/'+(b-1)+'/'+a.x+'/'+a.y+'.png';%20}%20}%20};%20function%20makeMap(%20obj%20)%20{%20var%20copyright%20=%20new%20MMCopyright(%201,%20[%20new%20MMBounds(%20new%20MMLatLon(%20-90,%20-180%20),%20new%20MMLatLon(%2090,%20180%20)%20)%20],%201,%20'Open%20Street%20Map'%20);%20var%20copyrightCollection%20=%20new%20MMCopyrightCollection(%20'Maps:%20'%20);%20copyrightCollection.addCopyright(%20copyright%20);%20var%20tilelayer%20=%20new%20MMTileLayer(%20copyrightCollection,%20obj.minResolution%20?%20obj.minResolution%20:%201,%2019%20);%20tilelayer.getTileUrl%20=%20obj['callback'];%20var%20tilelayers%20=%20[%20tilelayer%20];%20if(%20!%20obj.projection%20)%20obj.projection%20=%20new%20MMMercatorProjection(20);%20obj.map%20=%20new%20MMMapType(%20tilelayers,%20obj.projection,%20obj.label%20);%20return%20obj.map;%20}%20;%20if(%20map%20instanceof%20MultimapViewer%20)%20{%20for(%20var%20type%20in%20custom_map_types%20)%20{%20map.addMapType(%20makeMap(%20custom_map_types[type]%20)%20);%20}%20}%20})());){kind=link}
Go enjoy some maps!