Better Map Navigation
Posted by Charlie Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:21:00 GMT
Two things made Google maps popular - its interactivity and its hackability. Users were delighted when they discovered you could simply hold down the mouse button and drag a map around. Today, any map that doesn't support that functionality seems "dead".
However, for power users, navigating around a Google map can quickly get tedious. The main problem is that you can't quickly zoom in or out of an area.
Well, we think we've solved that problem. On MapBuzz, if you hold the shift key down and then drag a map, you see a navigation box appear:
The way this works is by dragging to the:
- Bottom right you zoom into the selected area
- Top left you zoom out
- Top right takes you to your previous location (you can go all the way back to your first location)
- Bottom left cancels the navigation box and does not change your location
Obviously this feature is only for power users, but once you discover it you'll see that it is a very fast, powerful way to navigate through a map.
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