For a while now i’ve been toying with the idea of creating an iPhone App. After seeing a colleague battle with Objective C making our ReviewSpace Touch application I decided against a native one. I then switched my attention to Web Apps. I’d had a bit of a dig around making an iPhone optimised site before, but it didn’t really do much. With wanting to learn some of the new features HTML 5 would offer, I decided to create an app that tied into the GeoLocation API now available to the iPhone, via the 3.0 update. Without planning anything out, I dived right into the HTML5 Geo Location...

The Locator Panel has now been updated to v1.2. The update improves the functionality of the Map, in terms of being controlled by the keyboard and mouse. It also improves feedback when a connection is lost or cannot be found. You can download the panel from here.

I’ve have created my first true web mash-up using Flash and the Google Maps API. Firstly check it out here, and then head back to read the steps involved. Note! At the moment I have manually limited the search to UK and there is no option to remove a marker/pin. I was first inspired to create this after stumbling across the GMap Flash component from AFC. I liked the idea of having the Google Maps experience within Flash. As a Flash developer I have more control and flexibility over how the application would work. I could also add my own interface around the component and integrate it into...