First site developed by Nettigo is experimental site EduMapy.pl (site in Polish, still early beta). This is my take how can be better represented information about educational services in Warsaw area.
Foremost it is test how to handle huge amount (1000+) objects on map created with Google Maps API. There is at least few challenges. With organizing display there is some help with GMarkerManager from API, but it only solves fraction of problems.
My idea was to play with Google Maps API to check some solutions I was thinking of, but when I filled map with data about almost all public schools and kindergartens I discovered that despite data are very basic, Google is providing steady flow of new viewers.
They are interested in particular schools not map of whole Warsaw, so I decided to change attitude a bit. Now I will try to provide more useful information about particular schools. There are already forums, now I will work on providing information about test results (in Poland there are several tests on the end of each education level, they are published as statistics). I will get most interesting statistical data, gather them in one place.
What is the story?
I hope it will be more interesting to many people. So lesson learned release early, and watch feedback. I was interested personally in providing map overview of educational services. And more as technical challenge. Now I see there is real interest in finding information about schools, maybe it will be much more viable as web community drive?