Location Based Services are all the rage these days. The space is still being defined and the players are trying to differentiate their service offerings in order to attract the critical mass of developers. In this post I'll draw a side-by-side comparison of the main features provided by the major Places API providers today. While I have no hard numbers to back-up the "major provider" claim, I'll simply go for the webcompanies I would look … read on »
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