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New Year Wishes

Wishing all the readers of Spatial Unlimited a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013

The mobile meta tag

    If you have ventured into the world of Mobile web development, you would have realized the importance of the viewport meta tag in the head section of your HTML page. Without the proper meta tag included in your HTML, your web page would zoom, move, be dragged around and basically not client acceptable. To avoid all of this, we need to include a viewport meta tag in the HTML in the head section.     Jquery mobile suggests the users to use the following viewport meta tag. <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0">     By using the above viewport meta tag, the width would be set to pixel width of the device. This would avoid the resizing of the page and there-by the web page would not be draggable any more. However, this would not disable our zooming issue. The user can still zoom the web page by tapping the screen or by pinching it. Jquery mobile suggests that this is a feature that should be included, h

Jquery Mobile - Single Page Structure

    We have been introduced to Jquery Mobile and have also seen some of the key features of the rich web framework in the previous posts. Today we will take a look at a general page structure using Jquery Mobile. So be ready to start off programming using Jquery Mobile.     The Jquery Mobile page structure is optimized to support a single page or local, internally linked multiple pages. What does this mean? Well, single page architecture means, having multiple pages that are linked to each other using the normal process of using the anchor tag. So, each page will have its own header, content and footer. The multiple page structure is basically having multiple pages in one single page within different DIVs. So each page becomes a DIV which is linked to another page using an id for that particular page DIV.     The multiple page architecture, though available is not popularly used because it results in a performance issue. The DOM becomes heavy as multiple pages load at the sa

Jquery Mobile Features

    The always improving and always progressing Jquery Mobile framework is currently in stable version 1.2.0. This version works with    versions of jQuery core from 1.7.0 to 1.8.2. Let's take a look at the various key features of this very powerful and truly cross-platform mobile web framework. Built on Jquery Core - This helps in consistency in syntax as it uses the standard Jquery syntax and makes use of the Jquery UI code and patterns. This also reduces the learning curve to a great extent due to the familiarity with Jquery. Compatible with all major mobile, tablet, e-reader & desktop platforms   - This is probably one of the most important feature of this web platform. Jquery Mobile is compatible with a wide range of devices like iOS, Android, Blackberry, Palm WebOS, Nokia/Symbian, Windows Phone 7, MeeGo, Opera Mobile/Mini, Firefox Mobile, Kindle, Nook and all modern browsers with graded levels of support. Progressive enhancement   approach brings core content an

Jquery Mobile - Touch Optimized, Jquery and HTML5 based web framework

    Jquery Mobile - The next level of "Write Less, Do More" mantra of Jquery. Just recently, I started working on a project using the Jquery Mobile framework and just instantly fell in love with it! Jquery Mobile gives immense power and flexibility to developers and enables truly cross-platform and cross-browser and multi-device development. I have just loved it and have decided to share my knowledge with the readers of Spatial Unlimited .     Jquery Mobile is a touch optimized web framework for smartphones and tablets.  It's a  unified, HTML5-based user interface system for all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation. Its lightweight code is built with progressive enhancement, and has a flexible, easily themeable design. This is one reason why I love Jquery Mobile. It is easily customizable - no head-ace of themeing; Jquery Mobile does it for you.     Instead of writing unique apps for each mobile device or OS

Google Maps Santa Tracker

    While everyone is gearing up for Christmas, Google too is gearing up to spread the cheer with the world this Christmas. On Christmas Eve, Google will be showcasing a preview of Santa's dashboard - the technology that powers his sleigh during his around-the-world journey. Google has received this special preview from one of Santa’s many developer elves, who are hard at work in the North Pole helping Santa prepare for his big day.     Santa’s dashboard - featuring the latest and the greatest in Google Maps technology and sleigh engineering - will allow all of us to follow his progress around the world, and also learn a little about some of his stops along the way.     While Santa gets ready for his journey, we are all invited to visit and explore Santa's village . You are bound to find some fun activities and meet some interesting elves. Hope you all enjoy your visit to Santa's Village and let me know what did you enjoy the most - The Present Drop activity

Where is Google Street View?

    Quite a number of people ask this - "Do you know where the Google Street View Cars are currently running?" "Which places have the Google Street View?" These question and so many similar questions are time and again asked on sites like Quora too. I was browsing through the stack of such questions and decided to look for an answer. I am sharing with you all, what I found from Google.     Head to the Google link here  and you will be able to see a map which shows the availability of the Google Street View images across the globe. Scroll down to the bottom and you will see a drop-down, where you can view the list of places in a particular country where the Google Street View cars are currently driving. Google Map displaying the availability of Street View          T he blue overlay shows where Street View imagery is available. You can zoom in to an area to see more detail. The information shown in the "Where our cars are currently driving" se

Where does Google have live traffic information?

Where does Google have live traffic information.md Where all can I see the real-time traffic data? This question has been asked a several hundred times by several hundred people on several hundred forums. Probably you too have had this question. Well, we now have an answer to it and a very good one. Click on the image below and you would be redirected to a map from Google which will show you all the places at which live traffic data is available. Hope you’ll enjoy this and quench your thirst to know more about the Google Real Time traffic data. Update 10/31/2017 Previously the availability of traffic would be shown as seen in the image below, but now you need to be at a minimum of zoom level 5 and centered on the location of your choice to see where traffic data would be avialble. If haven’t already read from where Google gets it’s traffic data, be sure to check out this earlier post. Do post any question you have about the Google Maps, and I will try and answer as many as I can. Fo

Diwali Greetings

    Wishing all the readers of Spatial Unlimited a very happy and a prosperous Diwali!

Google Street View Image API

    Street View is one of most used feature of the Google Maps and why not? You can actually see any part of the world as if you are visiting the place at that very moment. And now with the Google Street View Image API, you don't even need to carry a camera with you to the places you visit. You can take-in all the scenic beauty without even bothering about clicking a single picture. You can come back from your vacation and get a few images using the Google Street View Image API and show those images to your friends and relatives. Create an album of high definition images and go ahead and share it on Facebook for your friends to have a look.     Using the Google Street View Image API is very simple and anybody can make use of it without any programming knowledge required. I will walk you through the entire process of effectively using the Google Street View Image API. So if you are set, let's go on an amazing ride across the globe with the Google Street Views.     The Go

Spatial Unlimited turns 2

    Today on this day, 2 years back, I started writing this blog Spatial Unlimited .I can't believe it's been two whole years since I started sharing my little knowledge with the community across the planet.     Since the blog officially went live on November 9, 2010, we have received: 76,800 page views and counting... Several 1000 shares and likes and comments across the social networking sites. Over 500 email followers and around 100 likes on the Facebook page     Not bad at all, for an unknown guy, new to the world of Google Maps and new to blogging.     When I look back at the last 2 years of sharing and learning, I realize that I have got so much from the community. Got the opportunity to help a few with their Google Maps problems and learned as much from them. Writing this blog has helped me keep updated with the Google Maps technology and things around it!     Moreover, I’d like to thank each and every one of you who visits my blog, reads my content, views

Google - Geoeye Insurance Solution Set

    Google will now soon be entering the market of risk management and crisis event response. With the extent of satellite imagery and the extent of geospatial expertise available with Google, this was an obvious thing coming. People, especially from the insurance industry, have long being pondering on the fact, that why Google had not moved into the the Catastrophic Risk Management avenue before. But now, the wait is over and Google is soon stepping into the Risk management domain that may bring a stir in the market dominated by companies like RMS and AIR .     Google is teaming with GeoEye to help insurance organizations across the globe, more effectively address risk management and crisis event response.  Google’s mapping solutions, combined with GeoEye’s Earth imagery and geospatial expertise, provide a platform for enabling strategic decision making, optimization of people and assets, and powerful location-based applications across the enterprise. Insurers know that havi

The Street View Army

    Google's Street Views have caused controversy more often than not. Sometimes for privacy issues, sometimes for security reasons. But whatever the media has to say, we can't deny the fact that Google Street Views has brought the entire world at your finger tips. You can visit places that you would not be able to visit ever. You can walk the roads, that you had only imagined of treading. You can experience for yourself, various cultures, events, religions and lives of people across the globe all at the comfort of your home. You can visit the deserts, the snow clad mountains, the giant rivers or the gushing waterfalls. Today, let's take a look at the efforts Google is taking to capture the world for us. Google Street View Car     Aha! We all know this vehical. More popular than the Mercs and the BMWs, this street view car has roamed the streets of many a cities since May 25, 2007. Street Views started out as an experimental project with a SUV packed with several compu

Rail Radar - Map your Train Live!

    Rail Radar - An interactive map that allows users to watch the movements of trains that are currently running in India. This means that you can now know the status of your trains live! Rail Radar is a real time tracker of the Indian Railways passenger trains. This live tracker is shown on our very own Google Maps and this long awaited system is a result of a collaboration between the CRIS - Center for Railway Information System and RailYatri.in.     Since this is a live tracking system of the Indian Railways, a few questions that will pop up in the minds who have ever travelled by railways will be - "Is this system really reliable? Is the data accurate? Can I trust the Rail Radar ?" Well, the system is reliable and you can trust the data since the information and intelligence behind the Rail Radar is extracted and harnessed from volumes of data from the official Indian Railway's train running operational data. With regards to accuracy – this is fairly accu