Google Maps, HTML version. Google’s mostly undocumented accessible version of Google Maps. Robin Christopherson demonstrated this yesterday at FOWA.
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Google Maps, HTML version. Google’s mostly undocumented accessible version of Google Maps. Robin Christopherson demonstrated this yesterday at FOWA.
I've often heard Google Maps used as an example of an app which can justify being inaccessible when JavaScript is unavailable. I never understood this - the pre-Ajax map providers were managing with plain HTML long ago.
Is this a new feature, or just something that has never had any publicity?
Genuinely curious (not being a jerk), what did Robin Christopherson mean when he described it as the accessible version of Google Maps? The only thing I found is that you can tab to the navigation which is an improvement, but perhaps accessible is an overstatement.
Patrick Taylor - 4th October 2007 22:22 - #
The keyboard shortcuts on the normal version of Google Maps are way better. Moving is just arrow keys, and since the movement is smooth, you don't become disoriented every time you move. Likewise, zooming only requires a single keypress.
Jesse Ruderman - 5th October 2007 00:23 - #
heh, I just wrote little python script to grab map of Moscow:)
could be easily modified for any other place.
import urllib,os,sys
for pos in [(y,x) for x in range(3,8) for y in range(5,10)]:
print repr(pos)
urllib.urlretrieve("http://maps.google.com/mapdata ?latitude_e6=55%d04614&longitude_e6=37%d70173&zm=1 9200&w=600&h=400&cc=&min_priority=2"%pos,"%d.%d"%p os)
ph - 5th October 2007 21:21 - #