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!
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 
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:
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).
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
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):
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!
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.
