Note that it would not have been wise to pre-plan mashups, but this application will be much more complex, and will definitely require some forethought. Previously, our APIs have worked in the background delivering data. We use PHP to retrieve data from an API, receive it in whatever format it gives us, format the response into either HTML output to the user, or another format to retrieve data from another API. PHP gives us a lot of flexibility in the way our application is designed.
This time, one API, Google Maps, is a JavaScript API. Another, Flickr Services, is still server based. The two cannot talk directly to each other, and we are going to have to play within the rules set by each one. More than ever, we are going to have to take a close look at everything before we attempt to write a single line of code.
At this point, this is what we know:
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We need to find a data source for the Tube stations. We need to find the names of the stations in each line, and some piece...