ESRI has matched the price Google, Yahoo and other mapping providers have been charging for their APIs. The leading GIS company made its JavaScript API completely free. Now the question is: will anyone care?
Here’s a quick rundown of 4 new APIs recently added to our API directory. The most notable is the World’s First Grocery API from UK retailer Tesco (a story that was then picked-up by at The Guardian and later in a light-hearted post on the press coverage from Tesco’s Head of R&D, Nick Lansley: A Bit More Evil). The other additions include an API to access all the documents of the Dutch parliament, another API for sending SMS messages, and an API for a sustainable world that gives you access to the largest international directory of NGOs. Below is more detail on these new additions to our directory.
The project that runs Wikipedia has added improved mapping extensions that let you embed Yahoo or Google Maps within your Wiki pages. Special markup is translated to API calls, which keeps out JavaScript that would be required if creating maps directly.
Intuit today announced its launch of a new open source community at code.intuit.com. The new community is aimed at developers looking to work with the Intuit Partner Platform, which allows developers to reach millions of small businesses that use Intuit products (e.g., Quickbooks). Intuit’s Alex Barnett announced the new endeavor on the Intuit Partner Platform Blog:
You may already have access to your user’s location and not know it yet. If you use Google’s Ajax API loader to access Maps, Search or Feeds, you’re one line of JavaScript away from knowing the user’s country, city, or even a nearby latitude/longitude point.
Know when that bus is coming? You could write an app to tell you, if you live within the service areas of these innovative transit authorities.
Looking to travel the world, but not sure where? A new mashup helps you plan where not to go.
The Travel Advice Map (our Travel Advice Map profile) shows icons over countries that contain warnings from the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office. As such, it is meant for British citizens, but the advice likely applies to [...]
As we have seen since the inception of ProgrammableWeb, there has been an explosion of APIs and mashups on the Web in the last few years. The ever-increasing number of APIs have made available a variety of valuable services, from maps to shopping to news to photos, and everything else in between. And [...]
The US government isn’t just opening its data, it’s now creating mashups. The Department of State is tracking Secratary Hillary Clinton’s world travel using the Google Maps API.
Google popularized mashups when it released its Maps API four years ago. About one in five mashups uses a map, with Google’s being the most popular choice. From time to time, Google creates its own mashups, too.
The company released a gadget to make embedding driving directions easier. When the destination is known (say, on a [...]
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