Another breathtaking, jaw-dropping and awe-inspiring release!

On August 25, 2008 in Mapness by EdgeCrusher

We’re happy to announce another breathtaking, jaw-dropping and awe-inspiring release of Mapness. We’ve stayed away from conferences, bootcamps, open-coffee’s and sleeping;) for over a month to focus on coding and designing to bring you this one!

Image upload now 110% easier!

The most prominent change comes in the image upload. Now you can upload multiple photos just by holding ctrl (command for Mac users) or shift while selecting files. All of the selected images will be uploaded.
What’s more, now you don’t have to wait for the upload of images to continue pin pointing more stops along your journey. As soon as you’ve selected the files, you can continue describing your journey, while your images will keep uploading silently in the background (denoted by spinning arrows shown over the point number where the upload is still in progress).

Mapness supports KML format!

Another new feature, added after many requests from Mapness users, is the KML format support. This format is used by some PDA and GPS devices (eg. TomTom), and also supported by Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual Earth, Google Maps, Flickr, Google Mobile, ArcGIS and many more interesting applications. Now you can import data from your mobile GPS device to Mapness to easily create a Mapness travel journal or export your travel journal from Mapness to .kml and see it in GoogleEarth. Aware that not all of the devices support KML format, we’re also developing support for all other major geospatial formats like .gpx (used by Garmin), .gdb, .csv, .gdf, .txt and .asc. If you’re using a format that you’d like to see supported by Mapness contact the Mapness team and we will look into it.

Full Opera support and more!

Based on your requests and suggestions we’ve also did some changes in the look and feel of Mapness and fixed some bugs. Mapness now runs smoothly in Opera 9.5+. As for the look and feel, we’ve made the map a little bit bigger (because map is the most important part, right?) and introduced the slim white top menu that in future will hold more and more new functionality. A lot of little glitches have been fixed and if anything is still bugging you go ahead and tell us and we’ll do our best to come up with a solution.

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world”

We’re now 100% ready for new language versions! And as a matter of fact Mapness is being translated to French and Spanish as I write this post. Possibility of Esperanto (ESPERANTO!) language version is also quite viable. Oh and I should probably mention, that we’re also looking into the feasibility of translating to Arabic, though right-to-left writing direction poses some difficulties.

If you’d like to see Mapness translated to your language of choice or origin, or even help us translate Mapness please contact the Mapness team and we’ll be more than happy to cooperate and help you.

More coming soon..

The next release is due in 5-6 weeks and we have a lot of great new features lined up to make Mapness more fun and useful to you. We’ve just started setting up a feature request and voting site to make our development process more transparent to our users and to enable you to decide which Mapness features you’d like to see implemented next. Thanks for your support and feedback - it really means a world of a difference to us!

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