APIS stands for application program interface, APIS are about sharing data. They allow you to take elements of a programs and rearrange different elements to suit yourself. APIS let you build off the back off other services, change the way people interact with a service, new ways of experiencing content and combining services.
This week there has been a lot of deliberating about the topic i am going to chose for the assignment! I was originally going to make a video, but after this weeks tute on using Google maps, API’S and tagging photo’s, i have come to the conclusion that i will be making a narrative through pictures and text using the Google maps API. The links that were posted on Ice lab, have given me a good idea of how to go about creating the project. There is one link that is especially decent, it allows you to use your pictures that have been tagged in flickr, on Google maps and Google earth. It creates a script for you in which you can open in either, it also allows you to build coordinates between the images…. pretty cool stuff.
