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My Google Maps Experiments will not replace Thomas Java applet on worldwide.kde.org. Thomas applet has a placement algorithm and works on browsers other than FF. It is missing some features, which Thomas is aware of and willing to implement, but it is already much better than the Google Maps. The only thing we can not fix is Google having better data (satellites and maps). Anyone willing to provide the data for that?

The Google thingie is very heavy to load, slow, has no mouse zoom, shows only half of the devels because of overlaps and plays “Berliner Mauer” with the UK and Portugal/Spain. It is far from being usable for the use case. It is a beta after all.

I just want to play with JavaScript and with my work on worldwide.kde.org this seems like the right project.

Unless Google improves the API and possibilities of the Maps and recognizes Safari is not the only browser using KHTML they are not getting near worldwide.

Hope I made that clear enough

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