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OpenLayers is a JavaScript library for displaying map data in web browsers as slippy maps. It provides an API for building rich web-based geographic applications similar to Google Maps and Bing Maps. It is open-source, provided under the 2-clause BSD License. [2]
The APIs provide functionality like analytics, machine learning as a service (the Prediction API) or access to user data (when permission to read the data is given). Another important example is an embedded Google map on a website, which can be achieved using the Static Maps API, [1] Places API [2] or Google Earth API. [3]
The AdSense and AdWords APIs, based on the SOAP data exchange standard, allow developers to integrate their own applications with these Google services. The AdSense API allows owners of websites and blogs to manage AdSense sign-up, content and reporting, while the AdWords API gives AdWords customers programmatic access to their AdWords accounts and campaigns.
The Open Location Code (OLC) is a geocode based on a system of regular grids for identifying an area anywhere on the Earth. [1] It was developed at Google's Zürich engineering office, [2] and released late October 2014. [3] Location codes created by the OLC system are referred to as "plus codes".
Besides these, there are other open source GIS tools: Generic Mapping Tools – A collection of command-line tools for manipulating geographic and Cartesian data sets and producing PostScript illustrations. FalconView – A mapping system created by the Georgia Tech Research Institute for Windows. A free, open source version is available.
Since 2010, it has rapidly expanded the niche of custom maps, as a response to the limited choice offered by map providers such as Google Maps. [3] By 2020, Mapbox switched to a proprietary software license for most of the software it previously maintained as open source. [4] As of October 2020, Mapbox had a valuation of $1 billion. [5]
2009: MapTiler released as open source software for tiling of geographic data for web maps. [28] 2009: Nokia made Ovi Maps free on its smartphones. 2012: Apple Maps, the first vector-tile based mapping app, [29] is launched, replacing Apple's own Google Maps client as the default mapping app for its platforms. [30] 2020: Petal Maps is released.
MapServer is an open-source development environment for building spatially enabled internet applications, built in the C language, and is widely known as one of the fastest Web mapping engines available.