APIs & services

Maps

• Google Maps
• Polymaps
• Cloudmade
• Open Street Maps
• Open Plaques
• NLS Maps
• Pleiades

Timeline & Visualisations

• Simile Timline
• Protovis
• Dipity

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.