I’m extremely pleased to report that Multimap has opened up its Javascript API to the general development community, to encourage innovation and experimentation on top of our best-of-breed draggable mapping, geocoding and routing services. We’re very proud of the breadth and depth of functionality available in the API, some highlights of which include:
- Automatic de-cluttering and aggregation of markers
- A full suite of customisable interface widgets, including a dynamic ‘where am I?’ location hierarchy, and customisable right-click context menus
- Global high-quality geocoding
- Multi-point and multi-modal (e.g., drive to here, then walk to here) routing with highway avoidance option
You can sign-up for a Multimap Open API key over here, or if you want to play with some demos, head over to the interactive documentation.
The Multimap API is fully supported through the Mapstraction abstraction library, so if you want to avoid coding directly to our API that option is available to you. Of course if you’ve developed against another API using Mapstraction, you’ve now got a new, feature-rich option available to you.
One feature of the Open API product that I’m particularly excited about is seamless integration of the grassroots Free the Postcode UK postcode database through our geocoding service, to supplement the partial postcode geocoding available through our TeleAtlas data.
I look forward to linking to some cool mash-ups and sites built on the Multimap Open API!
