Maths in the City website re-launches with new features
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011As a prelude to announcing the competition winners, Maths in the City is happy to announce the launch of an updated website.
Visit the interactive map on our homepage and go on a mathematical tour of cities around the world. Join the adventure today and shine a mathematical spotlight on your city.
Amongst the top new features we’ve added are:
- New homepage: find maths in your city and around the globe using the interactive map
- Maths in the City competition entries: these sites are now visible. If you entered our competition, find yours and send the link to your friends and family
- Snapshots: this is a new kind entry that you can add to the map, see this page for details
- Rate Sites and Snapshots: you can now rate Sites and Snapshots using our new five star rating feature – log in to start rating your favourites
- “Recommended” content: gold icons indicate a Site or Snapshot that has been approved by a Mathemagician because of its high quality, see this page for details
- Improved image uploader: it is now easier to upload images into your Site or Snapshot
- Improved equation display: if you’re including mathematical equations in your Site or Snapshot, they will display better. For those of you who like knowing this kind of stuff, we’re using MathJax to support LaTeX