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Maps in Genes Reunited

The idea of developing a map application for our genealogy solution has been an idea which started to sound like a real plan at the beginning of 2008 when the marketing team in Genes Reunited started to evaluate and plan the budget which might be required for such project.

While the developers team started to analyse the ramifications of this project in terms of data translation from members address data fields into geographical coordinates and the back-end implementation of how this data can be refined and able to grow as our number of members grow.

Also data consistency and accuracy were important factors in the decision making of which platform should be chosen for this project.

Abstract

The purpose of this articles however is not to cover all the marketing or back-end development aspect of this project but to mainly focus on the user interaction and design process. But in brief the suggested platforms to be analysed for employment were Google Maps and Bing Maps (Virtual Earth at the time). Which were proven dominant forces in terms of API facilities, Geographical data available and of course supplied documentation.

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