Mapquest - A9 - Amazon - AJAX map interface

[Ken Lord]

In my case ... its Enjoy.

The map recentering, by moving the highlighted box in the reference
map is very similar to our mapserver Flash interface.   Clicking the
arrows around the map or on the compass is just the same old stuff
seen in many a map.  But the right-click zoom in to box / left-click
zoom out is almost googlish (in a good way) in its obviousness ...
once you've done it once to know the controls exist.

What I don't like about this interface is how sluggish it feels, no
message or animated graphic to tell you that it is thinking after you
have taken an action ... except for the automatic query that happens
during a left-click re-center.

But that's just me.

Cheers,
Ken Lord
Vancouver BC




On 12/5/05, Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here is a link to the Mapquest - A9 - Amazon - AJAX maps interface in
> case you are tracking these things.
>
> http://maps.a9.com/
>
> After playing with this for a while, I like doing AJAX for map
> navigation, but I hate their controls. It is not obvious how to recenter
> the map. There is a lot I really don't like about this implementation.
> I'm not very impressed with the interface for the block either.
>
> Enjoy (or not),
>   -Steve W.
>