DISQUS

Mashable - The Social Media Guide: 2008/03/09/mapquest-apis/

  • PXLated · 1 year ago
    Amazing, they had the mapping world to themselves and blew it. A little too late for this me thinks.
  • JJT · 1 year ago
    I agree, it may be a little late, but now that the creative juices are flowing again they may develop that one unique app that will set it apart from the rest. We'll just wait and see I guess.
  • LiquidSilver · 1 year ago
    unlimited maps, unlimited geocoding and unlimited routing seems very tempting. these are the features google lacks and holding me back, correct me if i am wrong please.
  • RealBird · 1 year ago
    LiquidSilver, I agree. Unlimited geocoding and unlimited routing are the disruptive ones.

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  • Science · 11 months ago
    Read their terms of service before you get too excited about this. They indicate they can charge you a fee at any time for any reason. They also state that the usage is not unlimited and they can turn it off or throttle it with no notice.

    Also, any maybe this is just me being dumb, but I can't find any support for a generic RESTful API that I can use on my own. They seem to only support their custom libraries in C/AS3/.NET/JS. Of course these can be reversed engineered but that's not the point: Does MQ not want *everyone* to use their service? Do they want to control the libraries we are using? I for one am skeptical.