<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fernandes, Ana Isabel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Goulão, Miguel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Armanda Rodrigues,</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A Comparison of Maps Application Programming Interfaces</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">16th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, AGILE 2013</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2013</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">May 14-17</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3485</style></url></web-urls><related-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://docentes.fct.unl.pt/sites/default/files/mgoul/files/agile2013fernandesetalcameraready.pdf</style></url></related-urls></urls><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Leuven, Belgium</style></pub-location><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;The development of web applications that manipulate geo-referenced information is often supported by Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), allowing a fast development cycle for high quality applications. APIs can be used by programmers with different expertise levels and choosing an adequate API may&lt;br /&gt;
have a dramatic impact on the productivity achieved by those programmers. Our goal is to compare maps APIs with respect to their usability. We compare three different APIs: the Google Maps JavaScript API, the ArcGIS API for JavaScript, and the OpenLayers JavaScript Mapping Library. Our comparison is supported by&lt;br /&gt;
a set of software metrics and is performed in two orthogonal ways: the comparison of three implementations of the same system prototype, each using one of the APIs under scrutiny; the comparison of the APIs specifications. The main results of the study are related to the size of the APIs, with the Google API being significantly smaller than the others. &lt;/p&gt;
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