San Francisco Bay Area Developers’ Evening
Our first developers’ evening will be held at 18.30pm on the the 31st July at our Menlo Park offices. Anyone in the San Francisco Bay Area who has an interest in location aware applications, mapping, GPS and free data is invited to attend the event, which is guaranteed to include insight, intrigue, sneak-previews and free pizza.
OpenStreetMap and CloudMade founder, Steve Coast, will share his insights into the world of collaborative map making, talking about why the world needs free and open geodata, why traditional models of map making are not cut out for a world where maps form a core part of everyday life. You’ll hear how your applications can benefit from the rich map data that OpenStreetMap has to offer.
From mobile phones, to satellite navigation, from mashups to social networks - maps are everywhere. Yet most of the maps we use each day are owned by two companies - Tom-Tom and Nokia. We think that maps are too important to be controlled by a handful of governments and companies. Everyday tens of thousands of OpenStreetMap volunteers around the world are helping to liberate map data by making maps which can be used free of charge by anyone, anywhere in the world for almost any use you can imagine.
By packaging OpenStreetMap data into a set of high quality, professional products and services, CloudMade are shaking up the existing market place. CloudMade co-founder, Nick Black, will talk about their existing APIs which allow developers to embed high quality maps in web and mobile applications as well as talking about future plans for some exciting new APIs and services.
Developers will have the opportunity to talk to the CloudMade team who will be on hand to answer questions about their current and future plans over a slice of pizza and a drink.
Registration for this event is free. To register, click here.
For more information, email nick@cloudmade.com
July 24th, 2008 - Posted by Nick Black in events, geodata, openstreetmap, products, talks | | 2 Comments
ZXV at the AGI 2007
The Association for Geographic Information’s 2007 conference is happening next Wednesday and Thursday in Stratford Upon-Avon, UK. This year’s theme is ‘Building a geo-Community’, and ZXV will be there to share our collective experience of community software and geodata projects.
Unfortunately, the tickets for the event have sold out, but our slides will be posted here straight after the talk.
September 11th, 2007 - Posted by in events, geodata, talks | | 0 Comments
Mappam Launch - Location based advertising is here
This morning, ZXV Ltd launched Mappam, a new location based advertising service that makes it easy to put your ads on the map.
As an advertiser, you can visit mappam.com and place an advert, upload an icon to represent your ad and chose the price-per-click. You only pay when Mappam redirects someone to your site. As a host, you can add Mappam adverts to your site with one line of Javascript. Mappam ads appear as small 16×16 pixel icons on your map - taking up far less space than traditional banner ads and providing information that is relevant the context of the map your visitors are looking at. Head over to mappam.com and take a look, or visit our blog for more details.
Mappam has been developed exclusively by ZXV Ltd, using a range of technologies. The site is powered by the Ruby on Rails web-development framework with a MySQL database running on Ubuntu Linux. Hosting is provided by AWS’s EC2 and S3 with an Ubuntu/Rails image provided by Paul Dowman.
ZXV Ltd continue to offer a range of software development consultancy services. See our consulting page to find out more.
June 29th, 2007 - Posted by in events, linux, mappam, ruby on rails | | 0 Comments
ZXV at Mini-bar this week
INSERT_MAP
I’ll be at MiniBar on Friday 20th April (this week), so if you are going to be in the area, RSVP to info at openbusiness.cc. If you would like to meet up at or after the event, drop an email to nick@zxv.ltd.uk.
April 16th, 2007 - Posted by in events | | 0 Comments
