You can now bring the power of MapQuest routing to your application, whether it runs on a server or in the browser. The granddaddy of mapping announced a Beta release of a brand new web service for driving directions.
Developers working with geo mashups should take note: geospatial startup FortiusOne has said that “geocoding should be a commodity” and has announced that it has released a new open source geocoder. If you’re not familiar with geocoding, it is the process of assigning geographic coordinates to a location (typically an address or place name).
Are we finally ready to embrace paying for APIs? It seems so, as long as the value is there for developers.
Editor’s note: This guest post comes from Jim Hendler, a professor, web researcher, and Semantic Web evangelist working at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. You can see more of his teams’ ongoing research at Tetherless World.
A recent article by Tim Berners-Lee, “Putting Government Data online“, has attracted significant interest to the datasets published at the US data.gov [...]
A limit to Twitter authentication calls has broken some applications, confusing users and frustrating developers. The microblogging platform now only allows 15 requests to confirm a user’s credentials per hour. Previously there was no published limit and some applications were using well beyond 15.
The reason for the change is well-intentioned on Twitter’s part. Given unlimited [...]
Microsoft has announced that in late August it will be discontinuing availability and support for PopFly, its once popular mashup creation tool. As some of you may remember, we originally covered PopFly in May, 2007, shortly after its release as a developer preview.
Your code could help people get to events on time, or ease coordinating their schedules. Google opened some of their Calendar interface to developers as a gadget container, meaning developers can build features on top of Google’s popular service.
Over the weekend Music Hack Day took the stage in London, with developers working into the night to create mashups from music APIs. Some paused to eat pizza, or grab a nap.
The third largest retailer in the world, Tesco, a grocery-and-more chain largely in the UK, will soon unveil a REST API for its online store (Tesco API profile). Developers will be able to search products, as well as get nutritional information, such as how many calories are in a serving of crisps or biscuits.
The world’s most popular map service can now tell you where you are. Google Maps has now added a feature that uses JavaScript to geolocate your current whereabouts.
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