The OS OpenSpace API has finally launched, just weeks before the deadline imposed by the Cabinet Office, with a alpha test phase with the system finally opening up early next year..
I’d love to see comments from anyone who is part of the alpha, but I guess they are under pretty strict NDA at the moment. [UPDATE 15/12 – There is no NDA, so I’m not sure why there are no examples]
One observation is the limit on the number of maps tiles which may be rendered for an API key, this is not something I have seen elsewhere, but I can understand it as a defence against accusations from commercial users of the data of unfairness.
Still is great to see something I put so much effort into during my time at the OS finally reaching the public.
Written and Submitted from the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Manama, Bahrain, using its wifi broadband network.
OK so just a little tongue in cheek, but the