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Re: MapQuest Releases Open APIs With New Free Dev Platform

Science — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:12:49 -0000

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.

Re: MapQuest Releases Open APIs With New Free Dev Platform

RealBird — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:54:20 -0000

LiquidSilver, I agree. Unlimited geocoding and unlimited routing are the disruptive ones.

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Re: MapQuest Releases Open APIs With New Free Dev Platform

LiquidSilver — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:36:19 -0000

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.

Re: MapQuest Releases Open APIs With New Free Dev Platform

JJT — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:45:53 -0000

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.

Re: MapQuest Releases Open APIs With New Free Dev Platform

PXLated — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:52:58 -0000

Amazing, they had the mapping world to themselves and blew it. A little too late for this me thinks.