May 2011
February 2010
MapBox | creating custom maps in the cloud
by Spone & 4 others
MapBox is a suite of open source tools to create beautiful custom maps in Amazon's cloud.
A List Apart: Articles: Take Control of Your Maps
by Spone & 4 others (via)
We live in the era of Google Maps. What started off as an impressive refresh of Mapquest-style maps now fuels web mashups. With APIs official and unofficial, Google Maps is simple enough for front-end designers to embed and for back-end programmers to target. Along the way to becoming nearly ubiquitous, it has played a major role in the “democratization of mapping.” For the practical developer who wants to add geospatial information to a site or application, the Google Maps API has been an easy call.
Mapstraction - a javascript library to hide differences between mapping APIs.
by Spone & 15 others
Mapstraction is a library that provides a common API for various javascript mapping APIs to enable switching from one to another as smoothly as possible. Developers can code their applications once, and then easily switch mapping provider based on project needs, terms and conditions, and new functionality.
January 2010
Tile Drawer
by Spone
Tile Drawer makes designing and hosting custom maps simple and straightforward. The project lets anyone run their own OpenStreetMap server in the cloud with one-step configuration and zero administration.
August 2009
CloudMade Makes Maps Differently
by srcmax & 4 others
CloudMade helps you make the most of map data. We source our maps from OpenStreetMap, the community mapping project which is making a free map of the world. Our aim is to continue the democratization of geo data and to expand access to open geo data through a range of simple yet powerful tools and APIs.
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