HowTo: Create and sync a vidmap 0 comments

I just stumbled over one more great application of video maps. It's actually tracing a marathon course!

"Wondering where the big hills are for the marathon course of the Oakland Running Festival? Want to see how the course is mapped out for Oakland’s first marathon in 25 years? Use the map to trace the marathon course from its start at Frank Ogawa Plaza, as it goes all around the city, and leads back to the finish at 14th and Broadway. Click on a different point of the map on the left to see a video of that section of the course on the right. The Oakland Running Festival starts with a Twilight 5K race around Lake Merritt on Friday evening. Saturday’s events include the marathon, which starts at 7:30 a.m., the half-marathon at 9 a.m., the team relay at 7:30 a.m., and the kid’s fun run at 8:30 a.m."oaklandnorth.net, Oakland North, Mar 2010

You should read the whole article.

Customizable embed code for your Vidmaps! 1 comments

Today we launched a brand new feature on Vidmap: customizable embed code! From now on everyone can easily adjust format and size of the vidmap to embed - without touching a single bit of code anymore.

Currently the following options are available:
Style/Format:
1. map and video side-by-side
2. map on top of video
Size (depending on Style):
1. 480x198, 640x264, 725x299 (for style 1)
2. 240x300, 320x400, 480x600 (for style 2)

Here's a sample result of the new customization possibilities within Vidmap:

Video Maps in 3D 0 comments

We've just added to Vidmap a brand new feature of the Google Flash Maps Api: 3D Maps! This allows you to freely roll, yaw and pitch the map into every possible direction. In the near future we will give you the possibility to further customize & influence the 3D look with aid of some additional controls inside the Vidmap player. To learn more about Google Flash 3D Maps read this very interesting article on code.google.com.