CloudMade at the Mobile Jam Session, CTIA

If you’re a developer attending CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas next week (April 1-3), you should set Thursday 2nd aside and take part in the Mobile Jam Session.

Mobile Jam Sessions give developers a chance to talk, debate and share ideas in a fast paced, challenging environment. They fuse the freedom of expression found at “un-conferences” like Bar Camps, or the awesome Where Camp with a topical set of discussion topics lead by industry experts. If you are developing mobile applications this is a great chance to hear the latest and greatest from the people building the handsets, networks and developer tools, as well as catch up with other like-minded developers.

I (Nick) will be leading a discussion about adding social and locative information to applications. We’ll be talking about the apps and approaches that have worked and seeing what we can learn from past successes as well as failures. We’ll also be exploring the different sources of map data that are out there for developers – particularly useful given Apple’s recent announcement telling developers to “bring your own maps” to iPhone applications.

If you want to add location to your mobile app, but don’t know where to start, help will be at hand. Even seasoned geo-pros will discover new, useful information and contacts.

The event is free to attend, and you can sign-up here.

March 25th, 2009 - Posted by Nick Black in cloudmade, developers, events, talks | | 0 Comments

Bring CloudMade Maps to Your iPhone Application

If you’re looking for maps to add to your iPhone application you’re in the right place.

CloudMade’s iPhone Maps Library is an open source library that gives application developers everything you need to create great navigation applications on the iPhone.  You don’t need to wait any longer to add turn-by-turn navigation for vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists.

The iPhone Maps Library is part of a suite of CloudMade APIs and tools that give developers access to regularly updated crowd-sourced maps.  Give your users a unique experience – take control of the look and feel of your application and create richer, more interactive experiences.

The iPhone Maps Library integrates with other CloudMade tools including Style Editor, a web based tool that gives access to a variety of professionally designed map styles, which you can customize to fit your application’s specific purpose.

The are several applications in the App Store that already use CloudMade’s maps, with many more in the pipline

Trails - iPhone App Store

Trails – Relive your greatest biking, hiking and walking
moments and share them with your friends; Trails lets
you view your activities on a choice of different
CloudMade maps.

The main features of CloudMade’s Map Library are:

  • Quick development time with easy to follow examples
  • Mapping framework & controls
  • Custom tile serving
  • Geocoding
  • Routing service via vehicle, pedestrian and cycle
  • Integration with iPhone Location API

WorldView Live - iPhone App Store

WorldView Live – If the view out of your window isn’t
exotic enough WorldView Live is the app for you; This
great application lets you view live webcams from all
around the world.

CloudMade’s iPhone Maps Library provides developers with a real alternative to standard mapping on the iPhone.  This, combined with the ability to let consumers bring their custom maps across with them – across desktop, mobile and web – make for a compelling end user experience.

March 19th, 2009 - Posted by Cragg Nilson in api, clients, cloudmade, developers, events, ruby | | 9 Comments

CloudMade #GeoMob and Minibar – The Perfect Combination

If you are in London on Friday 27th March and you aren’t going to MiniBar, you should re-think your plans!

MiniBar is the perfect end of week meet-up for anyone working in technology, new media or start-ups in the London Area. The tech meet-up event like no-other, MiniBar is held in the old Truman Brewery where you can sip on beer (free to early arrivals) and cocktails whilst discussing the latest trends in the London tech scene.

This month’s MiniBar is a Location special, brought to by CloudMade and #GeoMob. The line up includes:

Entry to the event is free, but you need to RSVP here.

March 4th, 2009 - Posted by Nick Black in cloudmade, events, talks | | 4 Comments

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

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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

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