Another breathtaking, jaw-dropping and awe-inspiring release!
On August 25, 2008 in Mapness by EdgeCrusher
We’re happy to announce another breathtaking, jaw-dropping and awe-inspiring release of Mapness. We’ve stayed away from conferences, bootcamps, open-coffee’s and sleeping;) for over a month to focus on coding and designing to bring you this one!
Image upload now 110% easier!
The most prominent change comes in the image upload. Now you can upload multiple photos just by holding ctrl (command for Mac users) or shift while selecting files. All of the selected images will be uploaded.
What’s more, now you don’t have to wait for the upload of images to continue pin pointing more stops along your journey. As soon as you’ve selected the files, you can continue describing your journey, while your images will keep uploading silently in the background (denoted by spinning arrows shown over the point number where the upload is still in progress).
Mapness supports KML format!
Another new feature, added after many requests from Mapness users, is the KML format support. This format is used by some PDA and GPS devices (eg. TomTom), and also supported by Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual Earth, Google Maps, Flickr, Google Mobile, ArcGIS and many more interesting applications. Now you can import data from your mobile GPS device to Mapness to easily create a Mapness travel journal or export your travel journal from Mapness to .kml and see it in GoogleEarth. Aware that not all of the devices support KML format, we’re also developing support for all other major geospatial formats like .gpx (used by Garmin), .gdb, .csv, .gdf, .txt and .asc. If you’re using a format that you’d like to see supported by Mapness contact the Mapness team and we will look into it.
Full Opera support and more!
Based on your requests and suggestions we’ve also did some changes in the look and feel of Mapness and fixed some bugs. Mapness now runs smoothly in Opera 9.5+. As for the look and feel, we’ve made the map a little bit bigger (because map is the most important part, right?) and introduced the slim white top menu that in future will hold more and more new functionality. A lot of little glitches have been fixed and if anything is still bugging you go ahead and tell us and we’ll do our best to come up with a solution.
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world”
We’re now 100% ready for new language versions! And as a matter of fact Mapness is being translated to French and Spanish as I write this post. Possibility of Esperanto (ESPERANTO!) language version is also quite viable. Oh and I should probably mention, that we’re also looking into the feasibility of translating to Arabic, though right-to-left writing direction poses some difficulties.
If you’d like to see Mapness translated to your language of choice or origin, or even help us translate Mapness please contact the Mapness team and we’ll be more than happy to cooperate and help you.
More coming soon..
The next release is due in 5-6 weeks and we have a lot of great new features lined up to make Mapness more fun and useful to you. We’ve just started setting up a feature request and voting site to make our development process more transparent to our users and to enable you to decide which Mapness features you’d like to see implemented next. Thanks for your support and feedback - it really means a world of a difference to us!
Conferences! And lots of ‘em too!
On June 05, 2008 in Mapness by Tom Sieron
Being Digital in London
On 10th June 2008 (this Tuesday!) we’ll be presenting Mapness at the main stage at the Being Digital conference in London. Wojtek and Tom(who’s going to London especially for this event …and the afterparty (and all the other parties;)! ) will be there all day showing Mapness in the demo area, so come by and say hi!
TMT Communities ‘08 Warsaw
We’ll be also attending the TMT Communities conference in Warsaw on 12th June (Mike and Tom this time). The conference looks interesting, among others Mike Butcher from TechCrunch UK will be attending and giving a presentation on “Blogging, Twitting, Traveling, Meeting – an insider’s look at the European social media landscape“. Again - should you be there and spot us, don’t hesitate and come say hello.
Adobe onAIR Tour
Tomorrow (ie. 6th June) Tom will be hanging out at the Adobe onAIR Tour conference in Warsaw. A real conference is finally taking place here in Poland so it’d be a shame to miss it, plus we’re keen on Adobe technologies (have you seen Adobe Brio/ConnectNow? wow!) so it’ll be a blast!
..and more!
Almost forgot to mention - Mapness (Tom representing us again) will be also attending KreoAula (on 12th June) - the first sister edition of Aula (which is a monthly barcamp-like meeting), but with a creative/designer twist. Most probably we’ll also send Tom to the next Bootstrap in Warsaw on 14th June. Should you meet Tom anywhere don’t hesitate to say hi and tell him why you love/hate/what? Mapness and why!
See you there!
MiniBar March
On March 30, 2008 in Mapness by Wojtek
Last Friday I went to another MiniBar. I love those events. Free beer, interesting people, lots of ideas and ah did I mention free beer? 
I already RSVPed for next one in April and I encourage every entrepreneur in London area to pop in at least once to one of those events.
Had a nice talk with Phillip from Snagsta. Great splash screen Just had a look at your alpha version - looks interesting. Talk more about it next time.
London Startup Camp and 3rd prize
On March 28, 2008 in Mapness by Wojtek
Finally I have some spare time
As we have already written, I participated in the Startup Camp which took place on 7-8 March in London.
The Startup Camp has a form of an unconference which I was a bit skeptical about at first but when I saw how it works I just loved it.
As part of the agenda the Best Startup Contest was conducted. There was almost 300 people attending the conference and only 19 Best Startup Contest participants which means over an hour of explaining our vision to others. I’d like to thank everyone who voted for us as thanks to you we came third
Sun was the official sponsor of this event and for the 3rd place we received new and shiny iPod Touch witch will probably accompany us on our travels. Also I’d like to congratulate 1st prize winner Fav.or.it and 2nd place WebCanvas. All other participants can be seen here.
During the conference I was interviewed by Fritz Nelson from TechWeb TV.
Mapness at StartupCamp in London
On March 04, 2008 in Mapness by Tom Sieron
Wojtek on the catwalk!
Wojtek will be attending StartupCamp (a.k.a “The Unconference for the Startup Community”) in London on 7 and 8 March 2008. Mapness will take part in the Best Startup Contest there - Wojtek will give a presentation about Mapness, our business model and our plans for future world domination (of course).
If you happen to be anywhere around don’t hesitate to say “hi” - Wojtek will be more than happy to have a chat.
StartupCamp is..
As described on the StartupCamp wiki, it is “an unconference that makes use of the Open Space methodology — an approach to events that takes the best parts of regular conferences like the coffee breaks, after-hours events, and the 5 minutes of Q&A after those long sleepy presentations — and turns them into the event itself.” Sounds like lots of geek fun for Wojtek! See you there.
Minibar, February 22nd, London
On March 01, 2008 in Mapness by aneta
This Friday Wojtek took part in the social evening MiniBar - London organized by Christian from openbusiness.cc . It’s a cycle of meetings, during which people involved in start-ups, p2p, social networks etc. have great possibility to share their experience and ideas.
The meeting was held in Corbet Place Bar on Brick Lane. Around 200 people attended who guaranteed a metter-of-fact discussion, but also a lot of fun and great atmosphere as always. Apart from the people who make their first steps in Internet business, there was a lot of experienced people willing to help the beginners. Among the invited guests presenting their ideas were Margaret Gold (Vodafone Betavine.net), Nick Haltsted (tweetmeme.com), Antonio Roldao Lopes (graffywall.com) and others.
MiniBar is supported by BBC Innovation and O’Reilly.
TechCrunch UK represented by Mike Butcher is a media partner for MiniBar.
TMT Ventures 2008 Warsaw and Ogólnopolski Barcamp
On February 21, 2008 in Mapness by Tom Sieron
Seriously, we’re not dead!
Just a quick update. We’ve been plenty busy lately, and that’s why it’s been so quiet around here for a while, but we promise we’ll be posting more on the blog as soon as things settle down a bit. Another update with a major overhaul of the Mapness homepage is on its way and the Mapness team has grown. Details will follow.
Meet us at TMT Ventures or Barcamp in Warsaw.
Meanwhile, Mike and Tom will be attending the TMT Ventures 2008 conference in Warsaw on 27.02.2008 and the biggest ever polish Barcamp (Ogólnopolski Barcamp) event on 26.02.2008, also in Warsaw. The guest speakers will be Reshma Sohoni (Seedcamp.com) and Hanna Viita (Mindbox.pl), and part of the Mapness team will also be present at an invite-only meeting with Reshma Sohoni before the Barcamp. Great!
If you’d like to meet Tom and/or Mike and have a chat during the Barcamp or the next day, at the TMT Ventures conference, drop us a line and they’ll be more than happy to meet you there.
First update
On December 24, 2007 in Beta, Mapness by Wojtek
Lo and behold!
A new version of Mapness has just been released! We’ve been working very hard for the last couple of weeks fixing bugs, tweaking, upgrading, speeding up and polishing Mapness. The newly released service makes creating your travel journals much easier and more intuitive.
Changes to Mapness include, among others :
- full support for Internet Explorer 6+
- more intuitive, easier process of creating of your travel journals
- tips and visual cues helping you to get around
- address search for creating your travel journals
- lots of bugs and glitches fixed in response to feedback from our users
- more..
If you haven’t already done so, go ahead and register at Mapness to see for yourself!
The new version of Mapness is full of fixes and upgrades developed in response to the feedback received from Mapness users.
If you think that a part of Mapness needs fixing, stumble upon a bug or a functionality that you think should work different please tell us about it on the Mapness forum, contact us by e-mail at feedback@mapness.net or fill in the Mapness team contact form. If your comment or suggestion requires our direct response we will contact you shortly.
All registered Mapness users can login at the Mapness forum using the same login and password as in Mapness.
Ready. Set. Go!
On November 24, 2007 in Beta, Mapness by EdgeCrusher
Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn once said:
“If you’re not embarrassed by your first release, then you launched too late”
So ashamed as we are, and well aware of all the little quirks, tiny bugs and mischievous UI controls still popping up here and there, we’ve launched the open beta version of Mapness. If you haven’t already registered for an account at Mapness, now would be a good time to do so :). We’d like to thank all of you who already registered and hope you’ll like Mapness. We will be launching a forum in the next couple of days to gather all the feedback and suggestions from you. As for now use e-mail to send us your first impressions and bug reports.
Now that the first beta is running live we will be focusing on fixing and tweaking Mapness for the next 2 or 3 weeks, and then developing it further, also based on the feedback from you, Mapness users. Our plan is to mainly focus on social features, which Mapness is a little bit short on as of now. We also have some surprises coming up so stay tuned for details. We have the technology. We can make it better than it was. Better…stronger…faster!
Feel free to test, play with and share Mapness with your friends.
With faith in your support we travel on!
Your Mapness team.
Mapness is looking for seed investement.
On October 22, 2007 in Mapness by Tom Sieron
We are looking for seed funding - Venture Capitals or Business Angels. Back in September, when we were starting the development of Mapness we’ve applied to Seedcamp but having no more than an unrefined idea and no prototype to show we didn’t make it. Since then we have self-funded Mapness - we’ve developed a beta version, defined our business goals and are nearing the completion of a full blown public release. Thus we are now seeking a seed investment to enhance our marketing and development teams and to kick start our service. If you are interested please contact us and we’ll supply all the details and a business plan.
