Apple has reported bought company that makes Pushpin maps APIs
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 20, 2009 at 2:00am
Fred Lalonde, the founder of openplaces.org announced in a tweet that Apple had bought the company that produced the Maps API (application programing interface) that his company uses in their software. Openplaces is a project to build the the world’s largest organized repository of maps, pictures, details, and advice about every place in the world that anyone has ever travelled to.
Pushpin is the name of the software API that Openplaces uses and it is made by a company called Placebase, according to a Computerworld report. Seth Weintraub of Computerworld says he decided to do a background check on Placebase’s CEO and founder, Jason Waldman. “Turns out, he’s no longer founder and CEO of PlaceBase in Los Angeles,” he writes. “He’s now part of the “Geo Team” at Apple. whatever that is.”
Placebase’s Pushpin provides a JavaScript API for embedding scrollable maps into your web site. Interestingly, the http://www.placebase.com and http://www.pushpin.com web sites have been taken now except for a link to the documentation pages telling how to to implement Pushpin.
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