Skobbler, a mapping startup based in Germany and Romania, recently announced that it had rolled out a new web-based map based on the crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap project, featuring HTML5 ...

The Google Maps API used to be free, as it was trying to gain popularity and displace MapQuest and Yahoo. At the beginning of March it began charging anyone pulling over 25,000 page loads a day $4 ...

You probably don’t realize it, but you’re a direct beneficiary of OpenStreetMap. You may not be one of those who has contributed the 100 million edits to the community-driven mapping project ...

The Maps API started as a low-priced service that enticed companies to build a business on top of Google's API, but since Google's rise to mapping dominance, it has put the screws to developers ...

Recently, however, they added a feature that uses the OpenStreetMap API to convert OSM data into KML vector ski maps. In just the past month, 940 ski maps were generated for use on the site!

There is no indication that OpenStreetMap will ever be able to launch an API with Street View-style images for developers to include in their own apps, but this latest rollout at least makes it ...

Microsoft introduced the MapControl API in Windows 10, which allowed apps to display maps using data from Bing. It was a helpful feature for weather applications, device tracking tools, and ...

OpenStreetMap launched well over a decade ago in the U.K and has since existed as a free open-source map API that anyone can edit in real time.