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yegg13

Maps

in DuckDuckGo Forum • 1 year ago

I'm starting to mess around with maps. Any suggestions?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=map+phoenixville,+pa

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=1600+pa+ave,+washington,+dc

It had an address detector in there before, but now it pops a map in that case and also looks for map * or * map, and does the same.

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voop556

Re: Maps

1 year ago

Maybe there should be a title, e.g. Map of Phoenixville, PA. Also, directions would be nice, e.g. if you search directions: Phoenixville, PA to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C. Maybe even show street view if there is any for that adress.

~voop556

yegg13

Re: Maps

1 year ago

Yeah, turning this off for now for a few reasons, but would appreciate more suggestions for sure.

notriddle

Re: Maps

1 year ago

Perhaps you could include the map if Wikipedia categorizes it as a location (e.g. http://duckduckgo.com/Arizona)?

Also, you're hotlinking the image directly from the MapQuest API. Does MapQuest collect personal information?

Also, have you looked at http://open.mapquest.com/ ?

dgmurdockiii

Re: Maps

1 year ago

why not use http://www.openstreetmap.org

yegg13

Re: Maps

1 year ago

open.mq is osm.

Zeitgeistt

Re: Maps

1 year ago

maps!great idea!

voop556

Re: Maps

1 year ago

Maybe when you type in an ip adress or logitude and latitude a map could come up.

~voop556

yegg13

Re: Maps

1 year ago

The mapquest geocoding, and the open street map one has serious issues. Once I have a lat/lon I can now easily grab OSM tiles, but getting good lat/lons is an issue. Any ideas for good providers?

notriddle

Re: Maps

1 year ago

Wikipedia provide latitude-longitude for most locations it has in the templates.

If that's too hard to parse, try http://www.geonames.org/.

BlaXpirit

Re: Maps

1 year ago

I got surprised when I was looking for maps (campaigns) for Alien Swarm ...

This is even worse. Search for sdfgsf

Guest

Re: Maps

1 year ago

http://geocoder.us/

Guest

Re: Maps

1 year ago

GeoCoder is US-only, unfortunately...

dgmurdockiii

Re: Maps

1 year ago

what about http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/placefinder/

voop556

Re: Maps

1 year ago

Why won't maps come up anymore?

~voop556

yegg13

Re: Maps

1 year ago

The geocoding wasn't too useful. Now there is a link to Google maps hard-coded first, but working on getting it back up again.

dgmurdockiii

Re: Maps

1 year ago

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim will do exactly what you want to do

yegg13

Re: Maps

1 year ago

I'm working with that now -- it has its issues, i.e. searching for 'brooklyn' doesn't work right, but it might be workable.

dgmurdockiii

Re: Maps

1 year ago

how is thiS COMING ALONG

yegg13

Re: Maps

1 year ago

Haven't had time to work on it much this week, but would like to soon.

yegg13

Re: Maps

1 year ago

OK, got basic OSM tiles up -- let me know what you think.

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=map+19460

Guest

Re: Maps

1 year ago

openstreetmap integration is nice looking :)

Re: Maps

1 year ago

Is trying to have maps trying to do too much and just walking down the same path as GOOG and Bing? I know most people have become conditioned to expect [i]everything[/i] from a search engine, but maybe DDG's appeal is that it can do the search engine better than others. It seems to do that, its focus should be very limited. Looking for a map? Have DDG point the user to a website that has maps - Google Maps, Mapquest, etc. and that's it, done. I think part of Google's huge failing is that it tries to be and do too much. And with no way to compete with those kinds of pockets, why not just do one thing very well and forget about so much of the extras?

yegg13

Re: Maps

1 year ago

I agree with that sentiment, and have tried hard only to inject features that I think truly improve things. However, I think maps in certain contexts like when you literally type in the word map or a full address are warranted. In other cases, we'll just keep providing a hard link to a map site (as you suggest), which we have been doing for a while.

Re: Maps

1 year ago

Interesting. Thanks for the reply. I do hope DDG does well.

dgmurdockiii

Re: Maps

1 year ago

http://geocoder.ca/

sjp602

Re: Maps

1 year ago

Really like this feature. Keep up the good work.

bizarre

Re: Maps

1 year ago

Very very well done! I do like having the maps on the side a lot better than in the 0-click box because they just take up too much space when you don't really want them.

yegg13

Re: Maps

1 year ago

Thx! These should get even better within a couple of weeks. Mapquest OSM is releasing static map integration which should enable different sizes and pin placement. Right now we're restricted to the 256 square OSM tiles (without pins).

voop556

Re: Maps

1 year ago

When you search Map My Run there's a map of Run, Oisterwijk, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands, very strange.

~voop556

yegg13

Re: Maps

1 year ago

Thx -- will report.

Guest

Re: Maps

1 year ago

They fixed this false positive.

yegg13

Re: Maps

1 year ago

Upgrade this a bit to use their new static map service, which can show a center icon.

Re: Maps

11 months ago

Is there anyway we can get map in sidebar for some locations ? For example, library, museum or other famous location when entered in search ? That will be one good feature.

Zeitgeistt

Re: Maps

11 months ago

Like this! https://duckduckgo.com/?q=black+lab+bistro I do like it better like this, but thats just me.

yegg13

Re: Maps

11 months ago

I improved this (still yet officially unannounced

) feature in two ways per your suggestions:

1) It now looks at 0-click wikipedia categories and if it detects something that seems to indicate it is a place then it renders a map in the right column, e.g. http://duckduckgo.com/?q=mannheim%2C+germany - right now it is cities and towns mainly. Give me some examples of other places you had in mind and I will see if we can geocode view OpenStreetMap, which is what it is using to determine location and get the map (via OpenMapquest).

2) That map now fills the space so if you increase your browser width a lot and refresh, it will get bigger. Not sure if it takes it too far or not, i.e. if there should be a width limit.

Guest

Re: Maps

11 months ago

I like how you integrated that into the side bar: excellent! As far as privacy is concerned I only care that the information I'm looking at is not viewed, sold, etc.. I realize that DDG cannot force privacy onto others.. That being said hopefully they (some sites) will come to appreciate this target audience and have some mutual respect & cater to us like they do with all other visitor's.

I think it's awesome yegg open map quest is quite good and again the integration is excellent.

~ klh

Guest

Re: Maps

3 months ago

Is DuckDuckGo releasing its own version of maps? If we truly want to avoid other search engines, then maps would help us.

Guest

Re: Maps

3 months ago

you should also intergrate into maps. Gasbuddy finding people cheap gas while in the trip anywhere.

-Trey

notriddle

Re: Maps

3 months ago

Clicking the map after searching for Arizona gives me a blank page.

edit: http://open.mapquest.com/ is blank; looks like the whole site is down.

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Arizona

http://open.mapquest.com/?q=[34.2935590031495,-111.664248920118]

Guest

Re: Maps

3 months ago

Looks good here - perhaps it was temporary downtime or a problem on your end?

Guest

Re: Maps

3 months ago

Can you make this also find results for the german word "Karte"

Would be great if !map would also forward to OSM and not Google Maps.

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