What | Plot London Tube station locations on Google Maps. When a station’s icon is clicked, search Flickr for photos of the station and display them on the map. |
Protocols Used | REST |
Data Formats | XML, RDF, JSON |
Tools Featured | SPARQL, RDF API for PHP, |
APIs Used | Google Maps, Flickr Services |
We have used a lot of techniques and APIs in our projects. For the most part, things have mashed up together fairly easily with minimal issues. One of the reasons for this is that we have relied on PHP to create the presentation for our mashups. This simplifies the architecture of our mashup and gives us a lot of control. Many APIs, though, are JavaScript-based, and hence, any mashup will rely heavily on JavaScript for the presentation. This introduces a lot of other issues that we will have to deal with. In this mashup, we will encounter some of those issues, and look at ways to work around them. PHP will remain an important part of our mashup...