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On 18/10/10 15:56, Mark Fraser wrote:
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">On Monday 18 Oct 2010
15:09:37 Alan Bell wrote:</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> This would of
course be an ideal vehicle for doing something fancy with</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> a map and all the
where are we type information that has been discussed</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> recently. There was
a frappr map, but their dotcom bubble has burst and</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> frappr is no more,
also Launchpad maps have been turned off</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Was that due to the
Google maps API changing? If so, we could always incorporate our
own as shown on <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://code.google.com/apis/maps/index.html">http://code.google.com/apis/maps/index.html</a>.</p>
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kind of, yes the API changed, but Canonical had a premium
subscription allowing them to do Google maps over https this expired
about a year ago and mysteriously kept on working. Apparently it is
rather expensive to renew the https deal and as launchpad is always
https and not http (for reasons that escape me) they can't use the
free API.<br>
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We totally can incorporate our own Google maps thingamagig. Would be
nice to do Open Street Map, I think we will go for whichever one
that someone wants to actually knuckle down and do.<br>
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Alan.<br>
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