Mapping Platform Selection

	Platform
	deCarta	ESRI	GoogleMap	MapQuest
Scalability	+	+	+	+
Internet/Internal	Internet (hosted)	Internal and Hosted	Internet (hosted)	Internal and Hosted
SDK, Ease of development	Navigation SDK, rapid deployment for hosted solutions, no code needed for simple apps (using Wizards)	ArcGIS for desktop, client and web dev.	KML, javascript SDK	SDK
Support	+	+	good public forums	+
Development Languages	JavaScript API, WS	Java, JavaScript, C++ for WinCE, Win XP, JSP, ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, ArcXML, WS, Eclipse dev environment	JSP, ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, JavaScript lib	JSP, ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, XML, WS
Major Markets	Telecom, Wireless	Goverment, Public works	mostly Consumer, Google MapEnterprise for >500K hits a day or when ads are undesired	commercial, asset management, logistics
Other pluses	Free access to TeleAtlas data	Exact boundary data	integration with search platform, Maplets, add links to maps, iPhone integration	(relatively) long history, MapInfo consulting, Points of interest SDK

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Posting to FaceBook feed using Graph API

Graph API was announced at F8 with a promise to dramatically simplify the FB API. I checked the read access over the new interface during the presentations and to my big surprise it worked flawlessly and from the first time. When I tried https://graph.facebook.com/facebook , JSON-formatted info about the FaceBook page was returned (as expected). Then I tried OAuth 2.0 way of accessing the API to post a message to the feed. And to my even bigger surprise it worked too! Here is what you need to do to access Graph API over OAuth: 1. Create a FB app, store app properties to a file: $appkey = '7925873fbfb5347e571744515a9d2804' ; $appsecret = 'THE SECRET' ; $canvas = 'http://apps.facebook.com/graphapi/' ; 2. Create a page that will prompt user the access permission (I am prompting for the publish_stream and offline_access permissions at the same time) //http://apps.facebook.com/graphapi/ require 'settings.php' ; $url = "https://graph.face...

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Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) and PHP

This morning Amazon announced availability of a bulk email delivery service called " Simple Email Service ". Anyone who knows how much pain is it to set-up scalable email solution (and it is not just spammers who need it!) should celebrate the occasion. I know of a company that spent several years cleaning ip addresses it sends email and found itself locked into the contract with internet provider since it would take forever to reach required level of email deliver ability anywhere else. Anyway, this evening I decided to check the Amazon claim that the service is "simple". Found out that it is indeed simple! Since there is not much in terms of the documentation yet, here is my code where I used AWS PHP library : // Enable full-blown error reporting. http://twitter.com/rasmus/status/7448448829 error_reporting (- 1 ); // Set plain text headers header ( "Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8" ); // Include the SDK require_once '../sdk.class.php' ...

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