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Mapbox Cartogram
It’s a quick start method for Mapbox. Upload a picture, and select the colors on your map from the picture.
Open Streetmap API (embed)
View Larger Map Here Open Street Maps is embedded via a simple i-frame – but it’s just a standard map. Not much Leaflet or Mapbox styling is possible when we use the OSM embed options. But at least you may add a marker via the OSM web page. As far as I can see the […]
API – what’s out there?
The http://www.programmableweb.com/ is s vast collection of APIs for web developers. It is a fine place to start if you need some API service for your website or app.
APIs – more or less open data
The Instagram API is just one among many APIs. Here is a list of interesting sites: http://data.culturehack.org.uk/ http://museum-api.pbworks.com/w/page/21933420/Museum%C2%A0APIs Scotland Open Data http://okfnscot.github.io/open-data-scotland/ Scalar http://scalar.usc.edu/features/open-api/ Open Art History http://openarthistory.org/ 30 Places http://blog.visual.ly/data-sources/ Open Weather http://openweathermap.org/api New York Times http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/times_newswire_api/ These are just a few examples …. Developers can access the APIs for e.g. Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr etc. ( often a developer key, […]