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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

#22838 — API-centric view of Alternatives to Google Maps

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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Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> kirjoitti 28.01.2014:

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

Maybe you should look at:

https://developer.here.com/

-kh

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