RE: Virtual Horsham

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:22:53 GMT

Looks good to me on IE6. Nice piece of work :)

Virtual Horsham

DotNetWebs — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:41:44 GMT

One of the features of the new Horsham Shoppers Guide is a customised version of Microsoft Virtual Earth centered on Horsham.

If you have not seen MS Virtual Earth before it is similar to Google Earth but has much higher resolution pictures for certain areas including Horsham. Some areas are even higher resolution than Horsham. Take a look at Brighton Pier for example.

The pictures used are actually low level photographs taken from an aircraft for the millennium map. As such some areas are a bit out of date but it is still a great reference tool.

For developers it offers a great interface and we eventually hope to add precise map data for the majority of Horsham business and locations.

For example click on the map icon on this page:

Horsham Carfax

On first use the map can be a little slow to load but you should eventually see a map with a pin precisely on top of the Carfax bandstand. 'mousing over' the pin should reveal a pop-up with the Carfax database entry.

We can do the same for participating businesses to as in this example:

Wakefield Jewellers

(in this case the map shown is a street map but a switch to the Aerial view will pinpoint the store.

One slight problem I am working on is that the pins will not show using Firefox 2.) but I know what I need to do to fix it. It will be done as soon as I have time.

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