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by freyfogle 5348 days ago
Anyone worried by this should check out http://www.mapstraction.com

Javascript mapping abstraction library that lets you write code once and then switch between different mapping providers.
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tmcw 5348 days ago
(full disclosure; have patches in many mapping frameworks, and a surplus of opinions)

You're probably better off just using a straight-up real maps API, like the MapQuest open tile API [1], and an open-source framework directly. And for this, use Leaflet or Modest Maps javascript. Not OpenLayers unless you really, really need OpenLayers.

[1]: http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/open/map

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mrud 5348 days ago
There is also http://openlayers.org supporting all different kind of formts (GeoJSON, GPX, WKT...) and different providers like google, bing, osm, ... It even supports mobile

Have a look at http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/ for their examples

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