Aerial View v1.0 beta
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About Aerial View
Aerial View is a new website from Vidar Networks, the local area search specialists. Aerial View provides information and images for over 80,000 unique historic locations. Depending upon the location you've chosen to view Aerial View offers aerial views or birds eye images, satellite views and local area maps. Complimentary photos and information are also included for many locations.
When we are unsure of any location we use a dash of AJAX to scan for new information using various geocoding and local area information web services. The popular XHConn XMLHTTP Interface Library was used to handle all the AJAX bits. Since we are firm believers that "fat" javascript code is "bad" javascript code we've run all our js through the handy TRYNT Javascript Compression API.
This website is a LAMP or Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP based website. We use the Odin Assemble PHP framework combined with various third party APIs. Special thanks to DIY Map, Flickr, Google, Microsoft, Odin, TRYNT, Yahoo and Yuan CC. We use a modified version of the OWD/OWSD template City Nightlife.