When we started working on nestoria.co.uk we knew that having maps would be vital. Without them browsing for properties is a pain as you need to keep switching from the list of properties to a map to try to work out where things are. We were lucky that Google made it possible.
I’m pleased to announce that out sponsorship of Mapstraction is bearing fruit. We have already started integrating the Mapstraction API into Nestoria. In the near future, this work will allow our users to choose from the most up to date features of all the mapping providers. As we do the integration we are moving some of our code into the Mapstraction library so that others can benefit from it too.
The UK Geospatial Mash-up on the 20 October 2006 should be really interesting, and we flatter ourselves that we are doing well. We have an API, we are supporting open source projects, we make it easy for others to add our listings to their sites, we take part in the developer community and more.
In fact we are hoping to announce yet another open source collaboration in time for the mashup conference. Watch this space.
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