Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Landwirtschafts Simulator 2011 [Multimap v1 by:lsportal.hu]


Multimap users are a unique group of programmers who speak their own language and are behind the scenes using multimap to create many of the entertaining and informing programs that we all love and appreciate.
Above is a clip of a simulated farming video using multimap. Multimap uses one key to return multiple values. That seems abstract for someone with no experience programming mp. One way to illustrate multimap is to think about an online questionaire that has a question where you are allowed to select more than a single answer. The programming behind that is multimap. However that is an oversimplified explanatioin for multimap. It is far more complex in its process and it has a vast number of application for programmers in a variety of different environments. All of these aspects allow you to route data through a virtual or actual map to move the user or the information to the appropriate step or location as established in the multimap programming.
Another example of a multimap would be an e-book or online book that has an index. In the index you will find a list of topics or keywords that are contained within the book. If a topic or word is contained in multiple pages, chapters or sections, the pages will be listed and that is a multimap in that you can click to go to any of the various locations to find the use of that topic or word. Thereby being multimap(ped) multimapped throughout the book.
At first blush the name seems to point us to a single application of multimap and that is geocoding (geo-coding)> Geocoding allows you to find a specific address using the exact lattitude and exact longitude. Currently geocoding in multimap allows you to point up to twenty addresses in a single map application in Great Britian. You can set the criteria using city or town, zip code, state, or a variety of other address parameters.
Unfortunately Multimap Open API is discontinued as of November of 2011 and the multimap api key registration has also been discontinued. For continuing information you could check the multimap site.