April 2009 Entries

Silverlight mapping – Using DeepEarth and guided nav

This post is part of a loose series about some recent Silverlight, DeepZoom and DeepEarth work I’ve been doing, see: Silverlight DeepZoom as an Ad Unit (MPU) Silverlight data visualisation – SIMD Prototype Silverlight Visual Car Search – Using DeepZoom for Search For the others. I was excited to hear at MIX09 that Microsoft were releasing a Silverlight control for the client side interaction with Virtual Earth. We’ve been doing some interesting work on Silverlight mapping over the last few weeks, see: http://dwqr.live.stormid.com For an example...

Silverlight Visual Car Search – Using DeepZoom for Search

This post is part of a loose series about some recent Silverlight, DeepZoom and DeepEarth work I’ve been doing, see: Silverlight DeepZoom as an Ad Unit (MPU) Silverlight data visualisation – SIMD Prototype Silverlight mapping – Using DeepEarth and guided nav For the others. In this example we use a combination of RoadRecord search and Guided Navigation along with a DeepZoom collection of images in order to browse a large number of used car adverts in a very visual manner. It’s quite an interesting approach, inspired by...

Silverlight data visualisation – SIMD Prototype

This post is part of a loose series about some recent Silverlight, DeepZoom and DeepEarth work I’ve been doing, see: Silverlight DeepZoom as an Ad Unit (MPU) Silverlight mapping – Using DeepEarth and guided nav Silverlight Visual Car Search – Using DeepZoom for Search For the others. The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation identifies small area concentrations of multiple deprivation across all of Scotland in a fair way. They provide loads of information and data via their website that just looked too good not to try and visualise....

Silverlight DeepZoom as an Ad Unit (MPU)

Silverlight Visual Car Search – Using DeepZoom for Search Silverlight data visualisation – SIMD Prototype Silverlight mapping – Using DeepEarth and guided nav For the others. We’re big fans of Silverlight DeepZoom and are keen to continue exploring the possibilities it opens up. Inspired by a video interview with Jose Fajardo and DeepZoom Obama we've created a prototype MPU for RoadRecord.co.uk (an extensive ASP.NET used car search developed by our sister company StormID). You can check out the MPU (on the right hand side of the page) in place...

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In this vein, we are passionate about the viral framework of social media and the opportunities networking sites represent to connect web-users from across a socio-geographic spectrum.

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