We have gone round accessing nine mashup APIs and have shown a set of information around a remote location. We displayed an online map of the remote location using Google Maps and a list of Wikipedia articles on the location using FUTEF. We retrieved and showed a list of places of interest around the location from Wikipedia through GeoNames. We've also used Kayak to retrieve a list of available hotels around the location. We retrieved the current weather forecast and those for the next six days from WeatherBug and displayed pictures of the location through Flickr. Finally we converted the user's local currency against the remote location's currency as well as showed the current local time in the user's location and the remote location by geocoding the user's IP address with Hostip.info.
Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects
Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects
Overview of this book
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
Preface
Free Chapter
Introduction to Web Mashups
'Find closest' mashup plugin
Proxy mailing list mashup plugin
Book sales tracking mashup plugin
Job board mashup application
Trip organizer mashup application
Ticketing mashup application
Customer Reviews