September 2019
Beginner
456 pages
10h 53m
English
The best source of freely available street mapping data is the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project: http://www.openstreetmap.org. OSM also has a publicly available REST API for creating static map images called StaticMapLite: http://staticmap.openstreetmap.de.
The OSM StaticMapLite API provides a GET API based on Google's static map API to create simple map images with a limited number of point markers and lines. A GET API, as opposed to a REST, API allows you to append name/value parameter pairs after a question mark on the URL. A REST API makes the parameters part of the URL path. We'll use the API to create our own NextBus API map on-demand with a red pushpin icon for the bus location.
In the next example, we have condensed ...