Manifold Toolbar?

September 19th, 2006 · 10 Comments · GIS, Manifold

Are you kidding me? What is this 1999? Oh but of course as The Earth is Square points out, it all has to do with giving Google the middle finger.

manifold.net recommends use of Microsoft Virtual Earth (the default installation) instead of Google servers for several reasons:

* Virtual Earth has a more even appearance in large scales.
* Virtual Earth does not interrupt service to active users, as Google has been known to do.
* Virtual Earth does not “watermark” images with a disfiguring logo as Google does.
* Virtual Earth has better resolution in many (but not all) locations.
* Microsoft has supported developers working on alternatives to Microsoft’s own geographic browsers.

Rule number one is never cross or speak ill of Manifold.

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10 responses so far ↓

1 Jenn // Sep 19, 2006 at 1:27 pm

Of course you ignore you own rule! Toolbars suck, no matter who creates them.
2 glenn // Sep 19, 2006 at 3:05 pm

oh man, here we go with the Manifold rant again.. this should be fun to watch… ;0)
3 Ryan Arp // Sep 19, 2006 at 3:44 pm

Like the ref’d article stated, I had trouble getting the toolbar to work..
4 David E. Wright // Sep 19, 2006 at 4:13 pm

Yah, the best option would have been to just write a extension to Firefox first, then port it to IE. The whole toolbar thing is dated, I have one right now for PDF Writer, then another for Yahoo, this would make 3 aside from the standard IE 7 stuff.
5 DevBoy // Sep 19, 2006 at 4:17 pm

Doesn’t work for me. *shrug*
6 Chad // Sep 19, 2006 at 5:44 pm

Yep.. it is a nice tool bar.. you have no idea what it does, it doesn’t seem work.. and no feedback or support.
7 Petz // Sep 20, 2006 at 2:00 am

Yeah I am also a bit at loss at what thats actually supposed to add or do. The interface is buggy and doesnt add any functionality at this moment that Microsoft Virtual Earth doesnt do better at the moment.

Now they were talking of being able to overlay your own Layers (WMS, Manifold Image Server) in a future. Now THAT would be a very useful and cool thing to do. But we have to wait and see if they can get their act together on that.
At the moment basically just a buggy alpha of something they should have kept to themselves for another couple of months.
8 Chad // Sep 20, 2006 at 6:14 am

This came up in the WW Forum.. a real url to a Manifold Support page! http://69.17.46.171/Site/Thread.aspx?id=27002&ti=632938893952970000

From what I glanced through… it is 5% working.. this should never have been put out in this form…
9 Janet // Oct 21, 2006 at 1:28 pm

The only toolbar that has any value whatsoever is congoo netpass. It does all the main stuff that all the others do but It also proivides free access to premium and susbcription content sites….googles doesnt even do that.

http://www.congoo.com
10 andrewwwolf // Jan 8, 2008 at 4:50 am

manifold toolbar sucks! i can’t install it.dammit
have IE7, Vista and it says to contact support.Any help??