Oleg's Blog

Well... One month of work on the online map of my city and now it's first beta is out:
http://map.krivbass.info/

We did a great job actually... Two guys 'measured' almost every piece of our city by themselves. Every disctrict, every street, every building... And just two guys with theodolite — Yury and Igor! (their work took several years actually)

Another two guys — Andrey and me brought it all to work. Andrey made all server-side scripting and configuration and I made a very simple design, XHTML coding, CSS styling and user intercation through JavaScript (AJAX).

This was my first 'serious' web project with AJAX and DHTML.
Andrey also has his first experience in developing web applications. He's application software developer.

Now it's just regular GIS that allows you to search streets and districts and navigate through a map: zoom-in, out and move it. Well, sure... There are some small aberrations and bugs there, but they will be fixed soon But even more functionality just haven't been added yet! Like user accounts, advanced search feature, rich user feedback, business search etc. There's no any other content now except the map itself But it'll be added asap. The main aim — the map itself.

By the way, we placed there some social advertise banners: one against AIDS and another is for donor association support. It's such a great feeling to do something beneficent, actually!!! Even if it's not so much, but... It's something you CAN do within yours $300/month salary. And I think it's good!

P.S.: We also added a small Opera banner at the top of the site! Hoping it'll also help to spread the word about this great browser!