Comments on: The one fatal flaw in mashups http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2006/03/02/the-one-fatal-flaw-in-mashups/ Geospatial Technology, Web Mapping and Spatial Services Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:09:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: the Art of Geography weblog » The one fatal flaw in mashups http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2006/03/02/the-one-fatal-flaw-in-mashups/#comment-1227 Wed, 03 May 2006 01:55:34 +0000 http://zhun.pair.com/spatiall/blog/?p=618#comment-1227 [...] The one fatal flaw in mashups: “ [...]

]]> By: Phillip Holmstrand http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2006/03/02/the-one-fatal-flaw-in-mashups/#comment-1226 Mon, 06 Mar 2006 23:53:39 +0000 http://zhun.pair.com/spatiall/blog/?p=618#comment-1226 A real world example of this:

Yahoo recently decided to roll back their geocoding support on their API considerably, which had a negative impact on my batch geocoding tool (which is a mashup of sorts.)

Luckily I figured out a workaround which so my service was not disabled, though its not quite as sweet as it once was.

My advice to anyone who’s venturing into mashups: tread lightly and always have a backup plan.

-Phillip

]]> By: Brian Timoney http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2006/03/02/the-one-fatal-flaw-in-mashups/#comment-1225 Fri, 03 Mar 2006 04:53:27 +0000 http://zhun.pair.com/spatiall/blog/?p=618#comment-1225 Since I don’t have a nickel for every great “mashup” idea someone came to me with, I’ve had to improvise by repeating the mantra to would-be spatial capitalists “the devil is in the data.”

]]> By: Ed Parsons http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2006/03/02/the-one-fatal-flaw-in-mashups/#comment-1224 Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:31:17 +0000 http://zhun.pair.com/spatiall/blog/?p=618#comment-1224 James,

Spot on.. there is no such thing as “free” data somebody is covering the costs of the content somewhere is the mash-up chain, and this may or may not be sustainable !

ed

]]> By: Vector One http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2006/03/02/the-one-fatal-flaw-in-mashups/#comment-1223 Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:58:21 +0000 http://zhun.pair.com/spatiall/blog/?p=618#comment-1223 I thought you were going to say, “what is called a mashup has long been known as ‘doin GIS”

I like your point though too…

]]> By: glenn http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2006/03/02/the-one-fatal-flaw-in-mashups/#comment-1222 Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:10:35 +0000 http://zhun.pair.com/spatiall/blog/?p=618#comment-1222 Excellent point and something that needs to be considered. Funny, just yesterday I bounced a similar question off an exec at GlobeXplorer.. here’s what he replied… “Most mashups are using web service image and street data that is licensed for personal and/or internal business use only, and not for resale. Aside from that, all our customers pay for the premium data services we provide, even sites that appear to end users as “free”. Much like TeleAtlas and Navteq data supplied from various web services into other sites, including mashups. We’ve been doing this for seven years now, and growing very fast”. Food for thought… Glenn (GISuser.com)

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