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UMapper 16K maps created!

Victor Farazdagi — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:38:05 +0000

Today we reached quite an important milestone – 16,000 maps have been created on UMapper. While service is still running at beta status we saw gradual growths in both user-base and, as a consequence, number of maps created.

I hope the growth continues!

WordPress plugin dev + jQuery

Victor Farazdagi — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:35:50 +0000

Today, when working on UMapper plugin, I tried to use jQuery – and failed. Although jQuery is now in WP core, $ shortcut wasn’t working. As it turned out, WP team (quite rightly!) used JQuery.noConflict – which helps avoiding naming conflict with similar libraries, such as prototype. So, we cannot use $ shortcut function, which is quite annoying. In order to overcome this limitation the following construct can be used:

jQuery(document).ready(function($){
    // inside this block you can use $ shortcut !!
});

Just a small note to myself

UMapper plugin – now supports GeoDart games creation

Victor Farazdagi — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:40:52 +0000

Just updated our wordpress plugin – GeoDart games have never been easier! Just check out this one:

Besides GeoDart, there are also other types of embed templates:

Locked View (cool for static views creation):

Unclustered markers (good performance-wise):

If you want to try the plugin for yourself – fetch it from WordPress official plugin directory.

UMapper GeoDart

Victor Farazdagi — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:52:38 +0000

Our Flash team has just announced GeoDart launch. If you wander what’s GeoDart – see for yourself (just pick one of user-created Geo games). Personally, I loved European Countries game (though I hope author adds the rest of the Europe to the stock).

UMapper WMPU gets great review

Victor Farazdagi — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:41:02 +0000

Today I am proud that WordPress plugin I have been working on get a great review. It’s always nice to see that software you develop gets attention, and as UMapper plugin is one of my top priorities, today started with the great news.

If you haven’t tried UMapper WMPU, please, see for yourself what it has in stock

UMapper has been featured on Google Maps Mania yet again!

Victor Farazdagi — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:59:26 +0000

Yesterday we have released new feature on UMapper – ability to embed map editors to any site (you could embed created maps for a long time, but now you can give your users ability to edit your wiki-maps!).

Google Maps Mania has responded quickly with a very nice post – they named it “UMapper just got better!”. Well, I have to say that such kind of comment is what essentially gives us a spirit to push the development beyond the limits, where everything looks good – we want everything to look (and be) almost perfect.

Granted, there are a lot of areas where we can improve UMapper service, but getting a good feedback acts as reassurance that we are on the right track. Now, with almost 5000 maps (there actually more of them, but not all maps are marked as public by their creators) under our belt, we believe that beta-testing is proceeding quite good.

Thanks for your continuous support!

UPD: here is the sample wiki-map (original map can be viewed here):

UMapper Plugin – more than 4000 downloads!!

Victor Farazdagi — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:51:09 +0000

We’re proud to announce that WordPress UMapper plugin has been downloaded more that 4K times! I hope download stats would keep up this great pace.

Thanks for your support!

UMapper hit the 1500 maps landmark!!

Victor Farazdagi — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:47:30 +0000

Couple of days ago I wanted to post the short notice once UMapper hits the 1500 on-site maps landmark, but if back then it was too early as we had less maps, today it’s too late – all of a sudden I realized that we actually have 1600+

I am really glad to see how service is progressing – thanks everybody for your help. Anyone not involved yet feel free to try UMapper service – it is totally FREE!

Thanks!

UMapper Plugin has more than 3500 downloads!

Victor Farazdagi — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:59:28 +0000

I am pleased to announce that our plugin has been downloaded more than 3500 times (in slightly more than a single month)! When developing I had really no idea that plugin could become so popular. On UMapper site we are approaching to 1500 public maps, and once integrator API is released, service would become even more useful.

Sample UMapper Map!

Victor Farazdagi — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:24:58 +0000

Here goes sample map created with UMapper Plugin. I created this sample within less then 10 minutes!