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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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When I first got involved with OpenStreetMap, my aspiration was to make free maps to enable something like Wayfaring or Platial to be built. Even though those sites and many others are storming ahead without us and creating great services on top of Goo...
Tracked: Apr 11, 12:22
MapStraction is a wiki placeholder for code that will ideally abstract away all the difference in the various free commercial and open source mapping APIs. The idea is that if you can stick to to lowest common denominator features offered by all mappin
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