Stella Laurenzo

In my previous post, I discussed a little project I started to create a super-small, no frills JavaScript map display library.  Well, it’s mostly working, with still a lot of things to do.  Specifically, here’s what it’s got:

• Standard desktop gestures for panning and zooming a map (double click, scroll wheel, drag)
• Standard touch gestures for panning and zooming (only tried on IOS 4.1 so far)
• Talks to OSM tile servers by default (setup for MapQuest OSM tiles now)
• Basic zooming to arbitrary resolution.  This still flickers and I know how to really get it right but I wanted to get the event bits in place before experimenting with the core rendering further

What it doesn’t have:

• IE support.  I’ll add some of this in a separate module.
• Any testing except on Firefox 3.6/Mac, Safari 5.0.2/Mac and iOS 4.1.
• Any of the stuff you will find in a full-featured map display library.  This one is structured, however, to let you integrate it easily with your own DOM manipulation and I plan to add a canned jQuery plugin at some point.

The download size of the scripts is 5.1KB (post-GZIP).

So, still a work in progress, but there is a bit more working today than there was.

GitHub: https://github.com/stellaeof/nanomaps

Demo: http://www.laurenzo.org/~stella/nanomaps/demo.html

I’ve got my own reasons for wanting something like this, but drop me a line or watch the GitHub repo if you’re interested in seeing this evolve as well.