zkimmer going great guns
November 15, 2007
Just a little update on the progress of my latest invention zkimmer. It is a concept built on map tiling but using publication graphics rather than map graphics… its working great.
Since I did the patent 4 months ago we know have some real support from an industry veteran and talking to big names in the newspaper and magazine publishing businesses.
As things develop we’ll keep you informed.
Update: 4/4/08 - Visitors please note… a new zkimmer site is up please have a look at http://db.zkimmer.com
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Joel | April 25, 2008 at 9:57 pm
What is the difference between this and sea dragon? I see that they are very similar. Your’s doesn’t need any additional software, but are they essentially giving the user the same function?
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ricricho | April 26, 2008 at 12:58 am
Joel, I believe sea dragon is now part of the silverlight project which is very much like flash…. that kind of technology is not optimized for hi resolution graphics… if it was then it would replace tiling technologies such as Google Maps… which is not likely to happen… ever… its just not fast enough… simply put flash looks slick, but its slow and cumbersome n handling big hi resolution graphics…. thats why when i invented zkimmer i opted to look at the bleeding edge tiling technologies rather than animation and video tools like silverlight and flash.