Gone are the days when you make everything yourself, and we're not nearly smart enough to come up with everything ourselves, this website couldn't exist without the knowledge, input, and services from a number of sources (if we've left any out please let us know):
- 51Degrees.mobi allows us to accurately detect if you're using a mobile browser
- AskGeo allows us to calculate what time zone a location is in
- ASP.NET MVC is the technology MAProgress is built upon
- Microsoft BizSpark provides us with free software and hosting as a new startup
- Captcha MVC stops robots from adding data where they shouldn't
- Color Picker allows you to select line colors
- Date Format helps us get around the difficulties with javascript dates
- ddSlick is a jQuery plugin that allows easy selection of map icons
- GEarthExtensions allows us to do some fancy things with Google Earth much easier including setting the map bounds
- GeoNames allows us to calculate what countries routes go through, if that doesn't work we use geoPlugin
- Html Agility Pack allows us to parse HTML files
- Images:
- Circles
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- Circles
- Inkplotter created our logo, and helped us with the design, layout, and icons etc.
- jQBrowser is a jQuery plugin that allows us to determine what web browser you're using
- JQuery write less, do more. JQuery is a javascript library which makes complex tasks simple and easy to adapt to different web browsers
- jQuery Autosize allows you to edit and view large blocks of text
- jQuery UI The jQuery User Interface is used extensively to run the menu, allow date selections, control map layer opacity, show dialogue boxes, and much more
- jquery.event.drag used by SlickGrid
- Json.NET makes working with JSON much easier
- Knockout makes binding data on the web browser much easier
- koordinates provided the New Zealand Department of Conservation data on Doc huts, campsites, and tracks
- Land Information New Zealand provides amazing and free topo maps, plus river centreline data
- List of Random Names is what we used for demo events to (surprisingly!) get a list of random names
- LowercaseRoutesMVC makes our website URLs look right
- Map Providers:
- Bing Maps - check out their birds eye view
- Google Earth provides amazing graphics
- Google Maps needs no introduction, the most popular mapping tool on the internet. In addition, almost all the elevation data comes from the Google elevation web service
- Leaflet maps - tiles coutesy of MapQuest
- Nokia Maps provide another alternative. Ovi maps are also provided by Nokia
- OpenStreetMap provide open source maps
- Mapstraction This amazing open source project allows you to view maps using different providers and switch seemlessly between each. MAProgress is an active contributor to this project
- Movable Type Scripts is a javascript library which allows us to calculate distances, bearings etc.
- MvcMailer is used to make sending emails a much easier task
- Natual Earth provides river and lake centrelinesfor around the world with extra detail for North America and Europe
- Nested Accordion is a jQuery plugin used to display complex route details
- Ninject is an open source dependency injector for .NET
- SignalR makes MAProgress real-time, this is what we use to send new locations to your web browser without having to do annoying refreshes
- SlickGrid is used in a number of places to provide great table layouts and editing functionality
- SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger - the initial inspiration for this site
- SpotWalla, highly reccommended, we would have lost all our tracking without SpotWalla. SpotWalla has also provided inspiration for several of the features on MAProgress
- SQL Server is where all the data resides and allows us to quickly search spatial locations etc.
- stackoverflow has solved countless problems for us
- T4MVC reduces our typing errors
- TZ4Net Library allows us to work with Olson time zones where necessary
- Webnet77.com allows us to work out from your IP address what country you're viewing MAProgress from
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