TeleAtlas & Ajax Search
I’ve just received the development package for the Tele Atlas product. This is going to be an interesting development and there will be numerous changes (both UI and backend) from previous GIS systems i’ve implemented.
One of the bonuses of the Tele Atlas product is the coverage area and the standard long/lat coordinate use which hasn’t been present in the previous UK/NI mapping systems i’ve been involved in. I’ve heard rumours that the Tele Atlas product also contains details of addresses/house numbers which map to specific vector coordiantes and ill be interested in looking into this. GPS (lat/long) type stuff is great but for use of the web the general idea is to locate specific places so lat/long is not the best idea since they are point specific and not address speecific which can make a difference.
I’ll report back when i’ve started working on this. Im currently producing a pretty substantial ajax based searching system for work which should change the way our users find content and potentially navigate the website.
It’s going to be really interesting to see the useage and whether it does have a good effect. The ideas we’ve implemented (ajax search, predictivie entries, folksonamy) all provide excellent nav. tools and the design is top notch. Cant wait to see this go live and ill post a link here when it goes gold.
As a side note, my interest outside of work in this area has really been a catalyst for this search and im really pleased to see it come to life. There are some great new technologies (or new ideas) coming forward at the moment and im really looking forward to seeing these exist in a well used web site to see if they improve the expierence.
Add comment December 5th, 2005