On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Danny Yoo <d...@hashcollision.org> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Claira <wavecla...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I dont know how this mailing list thing works, first time on it, they >> should have something that makes sense like quora.com >> >> > Be aware that mailing lists have a pretty long history, at least in > computing terms. You might be interested in reading: > > http://www.gweep.ca/~edmonds/usenet/ml-etiquette.html > > sometime. When you say that mailing lists don't make sense, it's > analogous to a traveler who says that the foreign country they visit > doesn't make sense. Sure, it might be true, but it does have echoes of the > "ugly American" stereotype. > > And there is a difference between mailing lists like Python Tutor vs. > sites like Quora: the mailing list has a public-access archive. > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/ In contrast, Quora requires that > you get an account from them to even _look_ at their database. > > :) But when I google, google never takes me to the open python.org -- and > I don't know any of sterotypes since you're the one in America. > > For the question I asked, I didn't know you had to do all that just to get >> a map. What happens if I use http://mapbox.com + Python + Yelp API ? >> >> I thought that google maps lets you add stuff, and I just want that stuff >> to be stuff accessible from the yelp api -- since google won't enable you >> to do that, then if I continue with this, will I be able to do this >> on mapbox without having to make a website? >> > > Hmmm... Does mapbox provide a programmable API? It looks like it may: > > http://mapbox.com/developers/api/ > > but if I'm reading it correctly, it's a JavaScript API that depends on a > web browser, not one that's natively accessible from Python. I don't think > it's accessible without a website, so I see no advantage over using Google > Maps. > :) Ok I'll ask those on the mapbox site about this and see how to go about this. Thanks!!
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