Wide maps for places pages
Dopplr (a web app for sharing with your friends your future travels) have just launched their “new Place screen headers with better communicating maps”. The have resized their map so that it will occupe the entire width of the page, just like in our place pages. I’m very glad they have arrived to the same design solution than us :)
When we were doing the first sketches of the place page our first idea was to insert a square map in the sidebar but, just one day before launching, when we were testing with some images for the header of the place page, the idea of using a wide version of the map as a header occours to us and decided to implement it. We are very happy with the result and several users have say us they like the idea very much. It makes the page more colourful and the map more useful.
PS: Of course, I’m not suggesting Dopplr copied our design. I doubt they even know us ;)