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APIs

Page history last edited by Paul Rissen 9 years ago

APIs & services

Maps

OS OpenSpace - free Ordnance Survey maps
Google Maps
Polymaps
Cloudmade
Open Street Maps
Open Plaques
NLS Maps
Pleiades

User Data

Facebook Graph API
Facebook Auth (user profile, email, likes etc) works on web, mobile web, mobile apps and embedded devices
Facebook Places (search, post checkins, get user and friends checkins)
Facebook Photos (all photos a user is tagged in, with timestamps)
Facebook Wall (all posts by a user and their friends on their wall, with timestamps)

Timeline & Visualisations

YQL tables for accessing APIs

Museum of London - example search for events
Brooklyn Museum - api key needed
Digital NZ - api key needed
Victoria and Albert Museum - example search for wine
British Museum - searches the opensearch feed; example search for Egypt
Black Country History - example search for painting
Opencontext - example search in a bounding box
Uk postcode - example search on BM postcode lat/lon
Theyworkforyou - api key needed

Simple example of multiquery search for Egypt using YQL across several apis.

Photos

Indicommons API to The Commons on Flickr
Suggestify (open-source code)

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