New Tracking The X-Men

For over lx years the X-Men convey been fighting evil to a greater extent than or less the world. Surprisingly during that fourth dimension no-one has bothered to endeavour as well as rail their movements.

UNTIL NOW!

The World of X is a Google Map of the locations where the X-Men convey been active across the globe. The map is non solely an of import cultural insight into the secretive populace of these superheroes, it is also a actually impressive application of the Google Maps API.

The World of X uses the Marvel Comics API to hollo upward the all of import place information from the X-Men serial of Marvel Comics. This place information is displayed on a custom base-map of a stylized night-light satellite persuasion of the earth. These custom built map tiles are displayed using the Custom Map Types characteristic of the Google Maps API.

The mark labels, which seem when you lot hover your mouse over a label, are created amongst the aid of the Marker amongst Label utility library. The map also includes a full-screen option, which is becoming to a greater extent than mutual amongst maps from other mapping libraries, exactly which I haven't seen used equally good oftentimes amongst the Google Maps API.