[OpenLayers-Dev] [OpenLayers-PSC] [John.Fagan@microsoft.com: RE: MultiMap API Changes with regard to OpenLayers]

Erik Uzureau euzuro at gmail.com
Thu Aug 21 19:17:47 EDT 2008


http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/1691

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Erik Uzureau <euzuro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Curious... has anyone followed up on this?
>
> cleaning out my inbox,
> erik
>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Christopher Schmidt
> <crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
>> ----- Forwarded message from John Fagan <John.Fagan at microsoft.com> -----
>>
>> From: John Fagan <John.Fagan at microsoft.com>
>> To: Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com>
>> Cc: Julian Skeels <jskeels at microsoft.com>
>> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:21:30 +0100
>> Subject: RE: MultiMap API Changes with regard to OpenLayers
>>
>> Chris -
>>
>> We deprecated v1.1, which caused this problem.  I think an email would have went out to our primary Metacarta contacts:
>>
>> David Beddoe
>> Erika Keirstead
>>
>> Apologies if you did not receive an email regarding this.  Easiest solution is for you to signup for a new OpenAPI account, would that be ok?
>>
>> http://www.multimap.com/openapi/
>>
>> Cheers, john.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christopher Schmidt [mailto:crschmidt at metacarta.com]
>> Sent: 30 July 2008 15:18
>> To: Julian Skeels; John Fagan
>> Subject: MultiMap API Changes with regard to OpenLayers
>>
>> Gentlemen,
>>
>> (I apologize if this is directed to the wrong place: your email was
>> given to me by someone knowledgable about MultiMap as possibly having
>> some information about my problem. Please feel free to redirect as
>> appropriate.)
>>
>> My name is Christopher Schmidt. I am a developer for the OpenLayers
>> project, an open source mapping framework. One of the key differences
>> between OpenLayers and other mapping interfaces is the ability to load
>> base layers from many different map providers. Since early versions of
>> our software, MultiMap has been included in this list.
>>
>> About two weeks ago, the script that is used in our examples to load the
>> MultiMap API stopped working: specifically, we use the URL
>>
>>  http://clients.multimap.com/API/maps/1.1/metacarta_04
>>
>> which now appears to be returning no content.
>>
>> As I understand it, this API URL was originally given to us as part of
>> some discussion between MetaCarta and MultiMap in the early days of
>> OpenLayers; I'm not sure if there is something we need to do to continue
>> this relationship, or if some other change resulted in this behavior.
>> (MetaCarta is a long-standing supporter of development on the OpenLayers
>> library.)
>>
>> Unfortunately, none of the current OpenLayers developers are active
>> MultiMap customers: as a result, we do not have any access to API
>> information, so far as I can see. (A quick search of the website turned
>> up only a sales email and telephone number to call.) This means that if
>> something has changed internally, we aren't aware of it, and don't have
>> any way to find out about it that I can find.
>>
>> I'm hoping that you might be able to enlighten us on how we can obtain a
>> working API URL, such that we can continue to develop and demonstrate
>> the usage of MultiMap's great maps within OpenLayers for our users who
>> may be MultiMap customers. I'm hopeful that this is simply some lack of
>> communication on our part (which I apologize for) that we can quickly
>> resolve.
>>
>> I look forward to your response.
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Christopher Schmidt
>> MetaCarta
>>
>> ----- End forwarded message -----
>>
>> --
>> Christopher Schmidt
>> MetaCarta
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