Friday, October 13, 2006

Ankool.com - making things easy....

It has been a while since I wanted to write this blog on Ankool.com. The above website has been live for some time now. I wanted to share what this website does and how it does its small bit in "making things easy".

Inspiration for this application:
A couple of months ago I was planning on a road trip from New York to Niagara and I knew that the weather had been really harsh on the east coast that week. I was wondering wouldn't it be nice if I could get the weather on the map all along my route, that way I can decide what route to take, when to start etc. Thus I ended up writing this tool.

What ankool.com can do today.
  • Given your source, destination addresses and the day of your travel. It can give you the route and the weather on your route.
  • Click for weather - you can right click on the map to get weather information on that point.

Ankool.com is powered by Microsoft's Virtual earth. I should say the documentation for Virtual Earth is really good.

Use ankool.com and let me know how you like it.