API-centric view of Alternatives to Google Maps

From	Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	API-centric view of Alternatives to Google Maps
Date	2014-01-28 17:02 +0800
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<lc7rnr$j1t$1@speranza.aioe.org> (permalink)

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Hi,

I'm over the moon with the V3 API for Google Maps but some sites are 
looking at converting to OpenStreetMap whose supporters seem to favour 
the Leaflet API. At first glance it looked pretty good, inertia control 
et al, even though it didn't have much draggability. Then the "L." 
namespacing seemed to remind me very much of "$.", followed by 
"interfaces" appearing in the documentation and a large dollop of 
.extend()s and I decided I'd rather stick my head in a boiling chip pan 
than use the mapping equivalent of jQuery.

So does anyone here know of viable API alternatives on OpenStreetMap or 
better, bigger,faster mapping platforms than Google Maps?

Cheers Richard Maher

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API-centric view of Alternatives to Google Maps Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2014-01-28 17:02 +0800
  Re: API-centric view of Alternatives to Google Maps Kari Hanski <kh@khdrive.fi> - 2014-01-28 19:53 +0000

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