Embed Ask City Maps

Embed Ask City Maps

Ask City map now allows you to embed the maps into your blog/website similar to Google Maps.




Though 'Ask' has a clever function not seen before - searching within a polygon.

This map was to find Bourne Ultimatum films showing in cinemas in Greater London

How is this function achieved?
Draw a Polygon of the search area. (used the M25 as boundary)

Then when the polygon is completed (double click to close)
a little search magnifying glass appears.



Clearly the Ask help is not updated with this

There is a some way to go, only a few results where returned. Looks like the bounding box was (map extent) was used rather than the actual polygon.
But a good step in the geographical spatial search method.

Real spatial searches in 'Search Engines' and web based maps? Maybe very soon.
A quick fast method would be to send the centre coordinates with a radius distance and use a spatial database (postgres is extremely powerful and fast at this) to return all the locations based on the search terms to give the user the first ten.
*postgres can do this in milliseconds.

Ask City Maps Supports Reverse Geocoding

Using Ask City now supports reverse geocoding... and supports UK Addresses.

Clicking on the Map or Aerial Photo with the yellow icon will submit a request to find the address and returns the results in a ballon.

Searching an Address

Result

Well done Ask

Ask City Maps

New Ask City Maps


New Mapping from Ask.com and CitySearch
Drawing Tools make it easy to add graphics to the map point(icon), line (freehand available), polygons and text.

Good you can save snap shots of your cartographic skills (mapperz was playing!)

AskCity is a search service that allows you to find Businesses, Events, and Movies for most cities in the U.S. Ask combines these features with a number of other helpful services, such as:

• Driving and walking directions
• Drawing tools so you can mark places on your map and add text notes
• Editorial and user reviews of local businesses, concert halls, movie theaters and more
• Options that allow you to save one location while you search for another one on the same map
• "Save Map" option that allows you to save up to ten of your maps

But also works in the UK, Road Classifications shows maximum speed for that Road.
(note speed limit in Richmond Park is 20mph now UK does not have a 25mph limit)



To make your map click here