The What3Words Python SDK interacts with the API to convert 3- word addresses into coordinates. All coordinates in latitude and longitude pairs, show in standard WGS-84 (as commonly used worldwide in GPS systems).
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?
Earlier this week Google announced a new feature for its Maps Data API (check out our Maps Data API Profile) that will have a significant impact on how developers upload, and subsequently access, geospatial data in the cloud: data can now be uploaded to Google's infrastructure in either KML or CSV format.
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.