Today for work I investigated the implementation of South Korean maps for one of our clients, unfortunately Google Maps doesn’t currently have street level details and view in South Korea. I ended up having to look at maps.naver.com which seems to be the only decent free korean mapping site available on the Internet with an API as well. Unfortunately for me, I did not understand korean, google translate was unable to help me with the site and there was no english translation available. After scanning through the API (in Korean), I managed to make out how implement the code but it was impossible to register without understanding the 10 step registration process in order to get an API key to use the maps . . . anyway here’s how I got it working without the API key!
Leave a comment »One of the biggest grief in web development is fixing these minor quirks between Internet Explorer and Mozilla based browsers like Firefox. Microsoft then makes it more difficult with more quirks between IE5, IE6 and IE7. To give Microsoft some credit, they seem to have genuinely tried to make IE7 more standards compliant than its predecessors. Just yesterday, Conditional Comments placed in my code for adding addition JavaScript code to fix IE quirks gave me some grief. Let me explain further…
Brinley Ang is a sysadmin, web dev, coder, geek boy, jedi knight fragger, caffine addict, deaf meloncholic and rockstar wannabe. Listens to the sex pistols and a wide assortment of heavy metal.
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