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Apple's MapKit JS Lets You Embed Apple Maps On the Web
Apple this week released MapKit JS in beta, a new JavaScript library that lets developers add interactive maps to web pages. It supports an array of functions, such as annotations, overlays, and other Apple Maps services such as search and directions. This is your web alternative to Google Maps.
06-08-2018
Mapbox Announces New Vision SDK for AR Navigation
Open source mapping firm Mapbox has announced new Vision SDK designed to help developers build AR navigation experiences, such as iOS and Android-based heads-up displays, by "bridging the phone, the camera, and the automobile." The Mapbox Vision SDK takes advantage of ARM's Project Trillium AI tech.
06-01-2018
Daily API RoundUp: Bing Maps, Figma, Atlas of Living Australia, Expeditors
Seventeen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Mapping, Sports, Shipping, Stocks, and Nature. Highlights include an API for the Figma design tool and and several APIs for integration with Bing Maps. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
05-30-2018
Mapbox Enhances Points of Interest and AR Features of Unity SDK
Mapbox continues to enhance mapping features designed for gaming in the AR space with new features to its Maps Unity SDK. Specifically, Mapbox has added new features to points of interest and augmented reality to the latest version of the SDK. Mapbox will demonstrate next week at its Locate event.
05-23-2018
Get Hyper-Local Weather Data with the ClimaCell Micro Weather API
ClimaCell has announced the launch of its Micro Weather API which provides hyper-local historical and real-time weather data. The API returns weather data requests such as real-time weather, short-term forecast (nowcast), heatmap tiled image, and a rectangular grid of weather details.
05-14-2018
Microsoft Bing Unveils Two New Bing Maps APIs
Microsoft's Bing has launched a private preview release of two new Bing Maps APIs. The Bing Maps Location Recognition API and Bing Maps Autosuggest API allow developers to deliver new kinds of experiences and provide richer analytics about locations at which users are situated.
05-11-2018
Google Streamlines its Maps APIs with Google Maps Platform
Google yesterday unveiled Google Maps Platform, which it is calling "the next generation" of its Google Maps business. Google Maps Platform includes streamlined APIs. In its announcement, the search giant stated, "Our core APIs work together to provide the building blocks you need."
05-03-2018
Foursquare Launches Places API for Start-Ups
Foursquare has launched Places API for Start-Ups which provides access to Foursquare location intelligence capabilities at a price point between the free tier account and the Enterprise tier account. The Places API allows companies to integrate apps with Foursquare platform data and capabilities.
04-12-2018
Google to Update Basemap Style for Google Maps APIs
Google yesterday announced that it will be updating the Google Maps APIs with a new basemap look and feel that is consistent with the look and feel that is now present across all Google products that incorporate Google Maps. The updated look and feel was implemented to improve user experience.
02-14-2018
Add Personalized Audio Traffic Reports to Apps with the TomTom Audio Traffic API
TomTom has launched an API that provides programmatic access to personalized audio traffic reports for drivers. Developers can use the TomTom Audio Traffic API to integrate personalized traffic reports with in-car entertainment applications and driver-oriented mobile applications.
02-11-2018
Most Popular Government API Categories
We saw earlier this year that the Government category was one of the most popular API categories within our directory. But what sections of government and what kinds of data are being made available via API? In this article we look at the ten most popular categories related to government APIs.
01-02-2018
ProgrammableWeb's Most Interesting APIs in 2017: Mapping and Location API University
This article is part of a 10-part series about interesting APIs that were added to our directory during 2016. Mapping and Location APIs are covered in this segment. The APIs were chosen by our researchers, by popularity according to website traffic, and by mentions on social media.
12-30-2017
Daily API RoundUp: Starling Bank, ICObench, Estated, UserIQ
Sixteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Banking, Mapping, and Photos. Highlight include the Get Image API which returns data about the location and cameras used for a particular photograph. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
12-16-2017
Factual Launches Engine SDK for iOS and Android
Factual recently announced a new SDK that enables third party apps and services to pull location data from its massive database and trigger certain actions in response to data points like location, environment, movement and more. The SDK is easily used through the Garage Web UI.
11-06-2017
How to Build a 3D Airport Experience with the Wrld.js SDK
Wrld.js is an SDK built on the Leaflet API that can be used for embedding interactive, 3D, indoor and outdoor maps in a web page. This guide will walk you through the process of using wrld.js to build a 3D airport experience, including searching, point-of-interest markers, and indoor routing.
10-17-2017
TRX Systems' 3D "Indoor GPS" Solutions Guide First Responders In Lethal Situations (includes podcast)
Largely in response to learnings from terrorism-related events, there's a new protocol for first responders that involves their entry into buildings before they're fully cleared of any danger. Commanding a situation like that requires GPS-like 3D indoor mapping technology where no GPS exists.
10-05-2017
Microsoft Launches Bing Maps Distance Matrix API
Microsoft has launched the Bing Maps Distance Matrix API which returns the travel times and distances between a set of origins and destinations. The API can be used in applications to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem and Vehicle Routing Problem returning the best route for a set of locations.
10-03-2017
Mapbox API Consumption Soars as Developers Demand More API University
This is the first API profile in what we are calling the "Growth Series." Mapbox provides an API that allows developers to create maps with rich data visualizations by using multiple data layers. This feature along with others has fueled an 11x growth in calls made to its API.
09-12-2017
OGC Seeking Public Comment on Draft Charter for Geocoding API Standard
Geo APIs are popular in today's mobile, ever-connected world. It's hard to find an oft-used app without mapping functionality of some sort. While the likes of Google Maps and other services have popular APIs, there is a visible lack of standardization in geocoding that the OGC seeks to remedy.
09-07-2017
In Other API Economy News: Browser Updates from Apple, Mozilla and More
The week is nearly finished and we bring you some of the stories we couldn't cover with a look at what is going on in the world of APIs including some new developments on the browser front from Apple and Firefox as well as a great demonstration of what can be build using the ArcGis JavaScript SDK.
08-31-2017