Multimap API
Submitted by Richard Wallis on Mon, 2006-10-09 10:01.
I have just come across the Multimap API at http://www.multimap.com/share/api_demos/1.1/introduction.htm. Has anyone checked on whether this API can be integrated easily with the Silkworm data on library locations?
Posting created, with permission, from email conversation with Philip Adams, De Montfort University Library.
Geolocation data
Hi Philip,
There should be no problems with this, although I haven't tried it myself yet.
Taking a quick look at the Multimap API documentation, it uses geolocation information in a very similar way and in the same format as the Google Maps API does.
As you will have seen from Talis Whisper, and the work that Tim Hodson in Herefordshire entered in to the Mashing Up the Library Competition, the location data held in the Silkworm Directory is directly useable with APIs such as these.
Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist - Talis