We are getting a great demonstration right now of open source power, as applications using the Google Maps API begin to appear.Mapquest, owned by AOL, has been around for many years, but it's a ...

You may now start to see Apple Maps embeds in websites around the internet, as Apple has opened up a web-based API for developers in beta, it announced today at WWDC.

Brian McClendon, vice president of Google Maps and Google Earth, said that more than 800,000 developers work with the Google Maps API. Also new to the Maps API today, Mitchell revealed, are symbols.

Touted to be supported by "any platform" (i.e. Web, Android, iOS, etc.), the new API will provide a link between developers' apps and the Maps Engine for editing geospatial data.

Google's plans to introduce the Web Environment Integrity (WEI) API on Chrome has been met with fierce backlash from internet software developers, drawing criticism for limiting user freedom and ...