Mashup: Homo Britannicus
A promo site for Penguin books, tracking the tour of a woolly mammoth across the UK. Vistors are invited to share their photos of the mammoth via Flickr, and post opinions. Photos are referenced by city, opinions by postcode and presented via GoogleMaps.
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Online mapping and directions innovator MapQuest has been building new web services on top of data from the publicly-editable OpenStreetMap project since the company announced a new open platform initiative in August. Now MapQuest has a new addition to its family of open data–based services, bike routes:
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Google has just announced that a new version of its Google Maps API (our Google Maps API Profile) is available as a beta release. The new version of the popular API has been developed from the ground up as a modularized set of JavaScript libraries focused on improving load speed and performance. At the Google IO Conference, the Google Maps API team indicated that the new API offers several advantages over the previous API, which originally was not designed to be as extensible or feature rich as it has become.
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| 0effort Coordinates Distance | Calculate the distance between any two coordinates on the map, and express the calculation in different measurement units. | Mapping | REST v1 |
| Peecho Print | Peecho’s print API enables your platform or app to sell digital content as high quality printed products.The Peecho API is organized around REST and you can use it to check your products (offerings... | Printing | REST v1 |
| AVUXI TopPlace | AVUXI TopPlace provides worldwide location context and GeoPopularity scores for social activity categories, areas and places. These scores can help website and applicaiton visitors make accommodation... | Localization | REST v2 |
| Common Sense Media | Common Sense Media provides aged-based media reviews for families. The Common Sense Media API enables developers to embed review content about movies, games, apps, websites, TV shows and books.... | Ratings | REST v2 |
| GPXZ elevation | GPXZ aims to improve access to high-quality open elevation data. The GPXZ elevation API offers elevation data from the GPXZ dataset, which starts with a base of ocean depth from GEBCO 2020 and land... | Location | REST v1 |