Wow - I've been a Bad Blogger! I hadn't realized that there were NO posts since before Christmas...that's not the way to do it. Well, there have been LOTS of things going on since before the holidays, but it's all just flown by. Anyhow, "Now, to the News"...
I've been working feverishly lately on improvements to DynaMap, which has been around for a while. The first and most obvious change is that it's now using Microsoft Virtual Earth rather than Google Maps. Some of you have actually thought DynaMap = Google Maps. We had intentionally NOT been specific to Google Maps because it did have some shortcomings, even when we originally launched DynaMap. MS has done a great deal to catch up to - and even pass - Google in certain aspects of their mapping system, so we're switching over to it (for now). Because DynaMap is our product name and just means that it uses some sort of dynamically-generated map with listing overlays, we aren't committed to one system or another.
The map-based searching of DynaMap has been updated to hopefully be a little more intuitive in its search style. The standard search results can now also be plotted in DynaMap format, providing another way to look at selected results.
Finally, when viewing an individual listing on a large-format map, you can even search for local businesses! You'll see up to 20 results of any sort of 'what' query that you run - 'schools', 'banks', even 'pizza'. So, your users can now find the stuff that's around where they are looking.
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