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    🎁 GLOTTER goes responsive – Happy holidays!

    The year 2012 ends and we would like to celebrate this occasion together with you. Today on 12.12.12 GLOTTER obtained a new look together with new features.

    • Easier navigation and usability improvements
    • A cleaner, simpler look with improved formatting
    • Responsive webdesign which automatically adapts to different screen sizes and tries to deliver the ideal display format (if supported by your browser)
    • Faster page loading

    We’d love to hear from you and get feedback on these updates. Any constructive suggestions are more than welcome: http://www.glotter.com/feedback

    Happy Holidays and a good start into the New Year!

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  • Aadministrator

    New Service: Weather

    From now on it’s possible to retrieve the current weather conditions with cloud imagery of any spot in the world. Simply go to http://www.glotter.com/weather and search for any place (city or country) using the familiar Geocoder to see an exact weather forecast of the upcoming days.

    London, United Kingdom
    http://www.glotter.com/weather?latlng=51.508129,-0.128005&zoom=10

    California
    http://www.glotter.com/weather?latlng=36.778261,-119.417932&zoom=5

    Japan
    http://www.glotter.com/weather?latlng=36.204824,138.252924&zoom=4

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  • Aadministrator

    🎈 Happy 5th Birthday GLOTTER!

    Today is GLOTTER’s 5th anniversary. To celebrate this special event, we have recently made some improvements to the design and added new functionalities.
    The Startpage http://www.glotter.com is represented clearer now and has a more modern look. Furthermore the Community pages have been revived and are more in line with the overall picture of the website.
    Small code improvements and Bugfixes complete this new release.

    New functionalities

    • Create copies of your entries and modify them as you wish with one click.
    • Publish maps with the optional Creative Commons creativecommons.org licence to allow other users to create a copy in their profile.

    We feel certain that the recently released modifications are very useful and simplify the usability of the website. As always your Feedback http://www.glotter.com/feedback is highly appreciated!

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  • Aadministrator

    New feature: Colorize entire countries

    As of now you can highlight entire countries on your maps. Automatically and uncomplicated. Just select a color in the Marker options to colorize the country in which the marker has been placed. It’s really simple!

    Here are some maps which already showcast this new feature:

    EU member states
    http://www.glotter.com/entry-5-full?latlng=50,13&zoom=4

    EU Eurozone
    http://www.glotter.com/entry-3020-full

    Group of 8 member states
    http://www.glotter.com/entry-3025-full

    UN headquarters
    http://www.glotter.com/entry-1072

    Countries crossed by the equator
    http://www.glotter.com/entry-1239-full?latlng=0,0&zoom=3

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  • Aadministrator

    New Feature: Collaboration

    We are happy to announce that users – who are friends on GLOTTER – now can collaborate on a shared map and add their individual placemarks. Just mark an entry as “Collab” and share it with your friends who are able to add their individual placemarks to the map.
    The user who initially created the map still has full control and is permitted to delete placemarks. Have fun with the new feature!

    As always, feel free to send us your feedback: http://www.glotter.com/feedback or http://www.glotter.com/contact

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  • Aadministrator

    🎈 Happy 4th Birthday GLOTTER!

    4 years ago GLOTTER was launched and to celebrate this event, we implemented some useful design improvements. The “Description”, “Videos”, “Slideshows”, the “Logbook” and “Map Actions” are sorted in an accordion and can be faded in/out which results in a much better overview in the Mapview mode and improves usability.

    Furthermore the design of the map type controls has changed recently. In addition some minor code changes with positive effects on speed and compatibility in browers have been implemented.

    Mapplets depreceated in the new Google Maps API and are not supported by Google anymore. That’s why we decided to drop the Mapplets (“Embed maps in Google Maps”) feature.

    For our users not much will change because it’s possible to view and store GLOTTER maps in Google Maps via KML. The KML link can be found below every entry and can be accessed with a single click.

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  • Aadministrator

    Collaboration: MultiMaps

    We’ve just added a new feature that was often requested. From now on multiple Map layers can be combined on a map.
    Just add all Entry-IDs separated by a comma in the URL – that’s all!

    e.g. F1 circuits 2008-2010
    http://www.glotter.com/entry-1009,1831,2445

    Famous museums
    http://www.glotter.com/entry-2484,2357,2309,2283,2128,2093,2052,1963,1742,1639,1586,1577,1506,1489,1465,1071

    Route 66, RAAM
    http://www.glotter.com/entry-1033,1220?latlng=37.0902,-95.7129&zoom=4&maptype=satellite

    New York
    http://www.glotter.com/entry-1737,1726,1725,1711,1600,1573,1531,1506,1464?latlng=40.7144,-74.0060&zoom=11&maptype=satellite

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  • Aadministrator

    New feature: Groups

    Some of you may have noticed the new feature “User groups”. You can create your own User groups and invite others to add entries to the group. Adding your entries to public groups is really easy. Logg in, visit the group and select one of your entries.

    Please have a look at the following cool groups and start adding your own entries!

    Google Maps Fun: http://www.glotter.com/group-1001

    Streetview group: http://www.glotter.com/group-1002

    High Society: http://www.glotter.com/group-1007

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