I received this yesterday from Rob at Yahoo!7.

For the second of our Yahoo!7 Open Sessions we have Philip Tellis, Sunnyvale  based Yahoo! geek coming to chat about performance.  Philip will explain why performance is everything and give you some hints and tips on how to create “websites on speed”.

Philip has spoken on various topics at several international conferences including Linux Bangalore, FOSS.IN, Freed.in, Ottawa Linux Symposium, Ubuntulive and Yahoo!’s Front end engineering conferences. He has covered topics ranging from opensource applications, education and new technological ideas, to project management and new web development technologies.

Philip is in Sydney for the webdu event http://www.webdu.com.au/ so we’re pleased he can also drop by the Sydney Yahoo!7 office for the Open Session.

The stuff you need to know:
*       Philip Tellis, Performance guru and Yahoo! Geek
*       6pm, Monday 25th May
*       Yahoo!7 offices, Level 2, Pier 8&9, 23 Hickson Road, Millers Point
*       Numbers are limited so registration is a must.

To register go to: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2570945/

For more information about the Yahoo Developer Network: http://developer.yahoo.com/

I was lucky enough to attend the Yahoo!7 Open Session this evening. While talking to some staff I discovered that they have the tiles with street maps for Australia, which are available on maps.yahoo.com.au, but they aren’t yet available via the maps API. Hopefully they’ll be available soon.

Over the last two days I’ve found a couple of hours to play with both Yahoo maps and Google maps. It’s my first attempt at building an application that plots data on a map. After starting with Yahoo I quickly moved to Google. The main reason for switching was because the Yahoo (API) maps don’t include street maps for Australia. This seemed kind of strange as maps.yahoo.com.au does include them. A quick check of some US cities and London showed that they did have street maps so I think I set it up correctly.

Currently it displays a marker on the map for every data point. The next challange is:

1. Only include markers that will be rendered on the current map,
2. Combining markers as the user zooms out.