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Friday, April 7. 2006
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Switching from Free Mapping API to Free Mapping API
I spoke with more than one vendor at Location Intelligence who after showing off an app using one API was quick to say, "Yeah and we might offer it on a different one, too." That suggests a few things to me: at least some of the platforms are "interchangeable enough" for that to occur, there's some reason (licensing restrictions, customer preference, other) that would drive developers to change, and developers are taking the time to keep up with lengthening list of open mapping API offerings.
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