30 June 2005
A Plethora of Mapping API
Posted by Ryan Sarver under: Technology .
In a great move that shows they listen to their community, Google has announced the availabilities of the Google Maps API. As most of us have seen there was a ground swell of guerilla apps that leveraged their technology, but it wasn’t fully supported so compatibility was shoddy at best.
Yahoo!, possibly in a response to Google’s announcement, has also announced the availability of their Yahoo! Maps API as well. Tim and I have recently been working with Yahoo! Local APIs, and I was wondering how long it would be before they opened up the Mapping API.
UPDATE: oooooh, *snap*
Now can they please offer up a method to return a JPG of the map that you request through the API? pretty please! Think mobile…
