Learn how to create your own custom web maps

Since Google Maps released the API in 2005 Web maps became popular after giving web developers an easy way to drop custom apps in their sites with a minimal amount of new code.

Today’s Web maps are known as “slippy maps”. The user can freely pan and zoom in the map with fluid motions. The interface uses Ajax to dynamically load new portions of the map as needed without reloading the whole page.

Web maps are more prevalent now than ever before and they’ve never been easier to customize, match the look and feel of your interests to show:

• Contacts;
• Events;
• Searches;
• Routing;
• Historical information forecasts based on scientific data or a live data;

Scribble Maps is an amazing framework for creating maps and is used by teachers to teach geography to students in a simple way. It is an effective medium to give your users geographic context for your data, services and your brand. In addition, it works in a very properly way on mobile phones.

Scribble Maps is primarily focused on map performance:

• Map application stays small;
• Basemap tiles load fast;
• Pan/zoom actions are smooth.

Extra features are available through wide selection of plugin.

Through Scribble Maps it is easy to build a new map. You can customize it to match your site, look and feel and you can use free open platforms to build them with.

In the following we would like to give you some ideas on how a map can be beneficial for your website applications and for your studies and how you can make maps interact efficiently and effectively with the different things that are going on in and around it.

Various topics such as heat maps, big data and geolocation can be easily managed by Scribble Maps.

Scribble Maps can be summarized as it follows:

• Give you more control over how the google map is represented;
• Offers some really interesting options for taking your analysis, reporting and presentations up a notch;
• Creates beautiful looking maps;
• More efficient at how it uses information.

Scribble Maps is really a useful tool and will surely pave the way for a new approach for studying geography. As a matter of fact, it can be used by teachers and students as well as by companies and individuals.