Monday, November 24, 2008

Mail.Ru launched Maps 2.0

Beta version of the draft Karty@Mail.Ru 2.0 opened for public testing (http://betamaps.mail.ru). In addition to maps at the new site has satellite images of terrain, available relevant information on traffic jams and more. In the near future, third-party developers will be offered API, designed to create your own map services.

The new engine allows the project to provide information on all the cities of the world, so coverage Kart@Mail.Ru will constantly expand. Currently Kartah@Mail.Ru already available topical - at the autumn of 2008 - maps of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Moscow and Leningrad regions. The latter is unique in that has the details - in provincial cities - up to one house. In the near future will map of Russia.

C through the service can be measured as the distance between objects, and their area. In addition to schematic, users Kart@Mail.Ru proposed satellite image area (data provided by one of the leading players of this market - «SkanEks»), the quality and quantity of images will improve. Coming soon to view maps in hybrid mode - «scheme + satellite».

Also, visitors to the new version of the draft available current information on traffic jams on roads in Moscow and St. Petersburg. It should be noted that the data is updated dynamically without restarting the page - it increases the convenience and speed of service. In the near future it will be the total busy roads.

Information on traffic jams is also available to holders of mobile devices - across Java, Symbian or Windows Mobile-client. The program «Karty@Mail.Ru» spends frugally traffic that displays a map in an easy-3D-form, suggests the possibility of construction, storage routing, and much more. Currently, the mobile client is also in beta status and constantly evolving.

Partner Kart@Mail.Ru on the new service was the company «MIT» (brand City Guide) - a market leader in St. Petersburg and one of the leading players in Moscow. The data on traffic jams are provided on the basis of information received from motorists who have established on their mobile device program of OOO «MIT» or mobile client «Karty@Mail.Ru». To date, in St. Petersburg OOO «MIT» processes information from tens of thousands of devices in Moscow - with a few thousand, with each day in both cities are connected hundreds of new users.

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