Simon Willison’s Weblog

OS OpenSpace from Ordnance Survey (via) Ordinance Survey now provide a free JavaScript mapping API for “non-commercial purposes” by “private individuals”. The maps look incredibly detailed, although I can’t find any live API demos on the site (the documentation is illustrated with screenshots).

Posted 9th June 2008 at 8:30 am

Tagged geo, javascript, maps, openspace, ordinancesurvey

3 comments

I added a live API demo on my site. The alerts regarding no VML or SVG are definitely annoying but perhaps I just need to disable a feature somewhere.
Niall Kennedy - 9th June 2008 09:33 - #
For some reason they require a *lot* of information if you want to sign up for an API key. I don't really want to give them my address and phone number just to play around with their system.

Andrew - 9th June 2008 11:30 - #
You can suppress the vector renderer warning dialog by adding this line somewhere before you initialize the map:
```
OpenLayers.Layer.Vector.prototype.reportError = false;
```
Paul Smith - 14th June 2008 17:06 - #