Comments on: Multimap opens up it’s API to developers http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/05/29/multimap-opens-up-its-api-to-developers/ the personal blog of Stuart Colville covering modern web development techniques and best practices Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:10:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Aaron Bassett http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/05/29/multimap-opens-up-its-api-to-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-39908 Aaron Bassett Tue, 29 May 2007 19:21:42 +0000 http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/05/29/multimap-opens-up-its-api-to-developers/#comment-39908 The really exciting part about this is the UK geocoding. We've had great map api's before (google maps) but due to the ridiculous copyright strangle hold the UK post office has over the data and the terms of the license which Google has to it they have been unable to provide geocoding for the UK in their api. Up until now you've had 2 choices when it has come to geocoding UK addresses. Screen scrape (naughty!) or pay for the postcode database (really expensive)/another 3rd party. Hopefully this should open the doors for some cool mapping mashups which can actually be used in the UK :) The really exciting part about this is the UK geocoding. We’ve had great map api’s before (google maps) but due to the ridiculous copyright strangle hold the UK post office has over the data and the terms of the license which Google has to it they have been unable to provide geocoding for the UK in their api.

Up until now you’ve had 2 choices when it has come to geocoding UK addresses. Screen scrape (naughty!) or pay for the postcode database (really expensive)/another 3rd party.

Hopefully this should open the doors for some cool mapping mashups which can actually be used in the UK :)

]]> By: Richard Keen http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/05/29/multimap-opens-up-its-api-to-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-39907 Richard Keen Tue, 29 May 2007 18:45:16 +0000 http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2007/05/29/multimap-opens-up-its-api-to-developers/#comment-39907 Thanks Stuart. We're really looking forward to seeing what the community builds on top of our API. Just to confirm, Open API will work absolutely fine via Mapstraction as-is. We've got some other cool stuff to announce very soon, so keep an eye on blogs.multimap.com Thanks Stuart. We’re really looking forward to seeing what the community builds on top of our API.

Just to confirm, Open API will work absolutely fine via Mapstraction as-is. We’ve got some other cool stuff to announce very soon, so keep an eye on blogs.multimap.com

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