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Tuesday, November 7. 2006

Update: Platial Offers New Mashup Tool: MapKit

Update 11/7: The map is working! Our blog software was misbehaving, but our webmaster Alexander set it straight!

Original post follows.
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This was the e-mail from my colleague Joe today:


Adena, you may want to blog this and demonstrate the application since it looks fairly simple.


He was talking about Platial's new "put an interactive map on your website/blog in two minutes" tool called MapKit. Per Platial, "this is the first time anyone can add places and make maps remotely." And, yes, it's really simple. Fill out a form at the MapKit site, copy the resulting code and you have, if all goes well, a map on your site to which others can add!

Here's the press release.

Here's our map:


Posted by Adena Schutzberg at 13:22 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0) | Bookmark and Share

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Thanks Adena. Just added us to your map. (Wasn't sure what you wanted to map.)
#1 deisnor on 2006-10-31 15:58 (Reply)
Hi Adena, it seems that the blog is adding "br" tags to the code, we are experimenting with a really long 'one line' solution for blogs, perhaps with some other escaping ampersand fixes as well. I'd be glad to let you know as soon as it's stable.
#2 jason wilson (Link) on 2006-10-31 16:40 (Reply)
Ok, with some help from our webmaster (thanks Alexander!) I took out the br's and the code is communicating with Platial. Still, no map, but we are closer!
#3 Adena Schutzberg (Link) on 2006-11-02 14:18 (Reply)

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