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Andrew, here is the response to the very same comment you left on the blog: I've used the Google Maps API before (it was actually marine science related! I wor

Andrew, here is the response to the very same comment you left on the blog: I've used the Google Maps API before (it was actually marine science related! I worked with a professor to track Sea Turtle migration in the Atlantic) but it wasn't a good fit for the project. We have a very limited dataset and the panning of Google Maps would have been more distracting than anything else. By doing things this way, users wouldn't find themselves somewhere without interesting data.

andrewljohnson 18y ago
You can turn panning off, and Google maps still might have been better for your purposes. It has many nice features such as an Event library, customizable overlays, and the ability to draw polylines and polygons. And you could have easily sliced up your artist's images into tiles. I think it would have saved you time, and probably left your client with more maintainable and extendable code. A lot of people know the Google Maps API.