Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
Fig. 6 A basic Leaflet API map with circle, marker, and triangle (
2014 OpenStreetMap
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contributors CC-BY-SA)
online mapping entities within mainland China. The two major companies are
Baidu and AutoNavi. Both companies provide detailed coverage for China and
Taiwan but not for other parts of the world.
Baidu is the major search engine in China, analogous to Google for the rest of the
world. With headquarters in Beijing, the company offers a Chinese language search
engine for websites, audio files, and images, in addition to Baidu Map. Baidu
became the first Chinese company to be listed on the NASDAQ-100 index. The
Baidu mapping API is very similar to other APIs. Figure
7
shows how to add a
marker to the Baidu map.
Mapstraction
Mapstraction is an open-source library that provides a common API for various
online mapping services (Duvander
2010
). The purpose is to make it possible to
easily switch between mapping APIs without having to worry about the unique
