Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

DIY Map is a clickable, zooming map written in Flash and colored by data from an external text file. The external data file makes it easy to customize and update state colors, add points, and use the same Flash file many times in the same Web page with different data sets. You can have a world map, USA map or Asia map,etc. It is free for personal, educational, and non-commercial use.

Requirements: Internet Explorer 6.0+, Firefox 0.8+, Safari 1.2.4+, Netscape 7.1+, Mozilla 1.4+, Opera 8.02+
Demo: http://backspace.com/mapapp
License: License Free for Non-Commercial

• 0 Comments

Yahoo! Maps enable you to make your web site or application come alive with the rich content and dynamic user interaction. Integrate a store locator with a few lines of code, view highway traffic patterns, or create custom routes — whatever you can dream of. Yahoo! Maps’ built-in Geocoder enables you to specify an address or latitude/longitude coordinates: no need to call an additional service or write special code. It is very similar to Google Map which is very powerful and easy to use.

Requirements: Flash 8.0+
Demo: http://maps.yahoo.com
License: License Free

• 0 Comments

AmMap is a web based interactive flash map creation software. Click on the points on the map to see possibilities of this tool. Use this tool to show locations of your offices, routes of your journeys, create your distributor map. You can zoom in and out easily. Photos or illustrations can be used instead of maps, so you can make different presentations, e-learning tools and more. You can use your own maps or choose from World, Europe, USA, Asia, North and South America, Australia and other maps which come together with this software.

Requirements: PHP 4.x+ and mySQL 4.3.x+, Flash 7+
Demo: http://www.interactivemaps.org/demo/ammap_admin
License: License Free for Non-Commercial

• 0 Comments

Google Maps are dynamic, interactive maps that you can drag — no clicking and waiting each time you want to view the adjacent parts of a map. Type in the name of a region or neighborhood and see any part of it as easily as with a regular street map. Use your mouse or the directional arrows to pan left, right, up and down to see areas that are hidden offscreen. Use the slider to zoom in and zoom out or press the + or – keys. You can also use satellite view, which gives you access to satellite and aerial images that you can zoom in, zoom out, or pan in any direction. You can create personalized, annotated, customized maps, complete with placemarks, lines or shapes. Add additional content including rich text, photos, videos and then share your map with others or open it in Google Earth.

Requirements: Internet Explorer 6.0+, Firefox 1.0+, and Opera 8.0+, Safari 1.2.4+
Demo: http://www.google.com/apis/maps/
License: License Free

• 2 Comments