tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7656888.post5639744986623406238..comments2023-10-11T04:24:22.301-06:00Comments on Aggregated Intelligence: Yahoo! MapMixer - Maybe not so wow! after all!Raj Raohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02773005045522319448noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7656888.post-10038551542799614752007-09-19T13:31:00.000-06:002007-09-19T13:31:00.000-06:00Hey Raj - I am one of the original developers of Y...Hey Raj - I am one of the original developers of Yahoo MapMixer and appreciated your comments here. We debated quite a bit about multi-tie points, but to simulate what they have in MapCruncher would take significant processing and is definitely not something that can be done in a smooth client-side AJAX app. <BR/><BR/>There are some tools for moving around the image and rotating on the last page of uploading, but they don't allow any more tie points. <BR/><BR/>Basically, our thought was that let's give the user two tie points to get them started and 90% there, and then let them adjust and fine-tune on the final page. It came down to the 80/20 rule - if 80% of maps are to scale, then we didn't want to spend 80% of the work accounting for the non-scaled maps.<BR/><BR/>You can ping me at david at davidyang dot net to talk more and I will download MapCruncher now to experiment (I had used the Google Earth overlay feature quite a bit as inspiration but surprisingly never found MapCruncher) :)davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17892896090092693433noreply@blogger.com